different between xylem vs cambium

English

Etymology

From German Xylem, from Ancient Greek ????? (xúlon, “wood”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: z??l?m, IPA^(key): /?za?.l?m/

Noun

xylem (plural xylems)

1. (botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.

Derived terms

• metaxylem
• protoxylem
• xylematic
• xylemian

Translations

Coordinate terms

• phloem

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cambium (“a change”), from Gaulish. Doublet of change.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kamb??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ke??m.bi??m/, /?kæm.bi??m/

Noun

cambium (plural cambiums or cambia)

1. (botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
2. (anatomy) Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones
3. (obsolete) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
   • , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147:

     The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […].

Translations

French

Noun

cambium m (plural cambiums)

1. cambium

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?h?mbós, *(s)kh?mbós (“crooked”), ultimately from the root Proto-Indo-European *kh?em- (“to bend, curve”).

Compare Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “winding, bending; turn, change”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (skambós, “crooked”), Old Irish camm (“crooked”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), Breton kamm (“crooked”), Old High German skimph (“joke, amusement, pastime”), Swedish skumpa (“to limp”). More at change.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kam.bi.um/, [?kämbi???]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?kam.bi.u/, [?kamb?u]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kam.bi.um/, [?k?mbium]

Noun

cambium n (genitive cambi? or camb?); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) A change
2. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) cambium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• cambi?

Descendants

• ? English: cambium
• ? French: cambium
• Italian: cambio
• Portuguese: câmbio
• ? Spanish: cambio, cambium

References

• cambium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cambium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Noun

cambium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cambiu

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cambium.

Noun

cambium m (plural cambiums)

1. cambium

Related terms

• cambiar