arbor

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • a tree
  • (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
  • (metonymically) the polypus imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree
  • (inflection of) arbor

Etymology

Inherited from Old Latin arbōs inherited from Proto-Italic *arðōs derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (high, grow), *h₃erdʰ- (high, grow).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₃erdʰ-

Gloss

high, grow

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