different between vegetable vs herber

English

Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin veget?bilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from veget?re (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?d???t?b?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?v?d???t?b?l/, /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?t??t?b?l/

Noun

vegetable (plural vegetables)

1. Any plant.
   • 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)

     That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

3. The edible part of such a plant.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

   Synonym: cabbage

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Translations

Adjective

vegetable (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

Translations

Further reading

• vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”). Doublet of arbour.

Noun

herber (plural herbers)

1. (rare) A garden in which herbs and vegetables are grown; a herbarium

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

herber

1. inflection of herb:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• erber, erbaire, erbare, herbier
• arber, arbere (influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”))
• herbergh, herbarwe (influenced by herberwe (“harbor”))

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman herber, erber (“garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?b??r/, /?r?be?r/, /??rb?r/, /??rb-/

Noun

herber (plural herbers)

1. pleasure garden
   • c. 1300, The Thrush and the Nightingale [Digby], line 98:

2. herb garden
   • c. 1400, Kyng Alisaunder [Laud Misc.], line 331:

3. vegetable garden
   • c. 1450, The Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode [Douce], (trans. of Vegetius, De re militari), line 98b:

4. (figuratively) garden of the heart; garden of philosophy; a religious house
   • c. 1400, William Langland, Piers Plowman [Laud Misc.], line 16.15:

5. arbor (shady place for sitting)
   • c. 1330, The Seven Sages of Rome [Auchinlek], line 76:

6. grassy area
   • c. 1425, The Seven Sages of Rome [Cotton Galba], line 628:

Descendants

• English: herber
• Scots: herber, herbere, herbar, herbare

References

• “herber, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.