viburnum

See also: Viburnum

English

Viburnum opulus

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīburnum.

Noun

viburnum (plural viburna)

1. Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.

Synonyms

• arrowwood

Derived terms

• black haw viburnum

 

Translations

plants of the genus Viburnum

• Arabic: أُفلُوس (uflūs), رِبَاط (ar) (ribāṭ)
• Bashkir: балан (balan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莢蒾／荚蒾 (zh) (jiámí)

• Chuvash: палан (palan)
• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: kalina (cs) f
• Estonian: lodjapuu
• Finnish: heisi (fi)
• French: viorne (fr) f
• German: Schneeball (de) m
• Kazakh: шәңкіш (şäñkış)
• Latin: viburnum n
• Ottoman Turkish: قار طوپی (kar topu)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kalina (pl) f
• Portuguese: viburno (pt) m
• Russian: кали́на (ru) f (kalína)
• Spanish: viburno m
• Swedish: olvon (sv) n
• Turkish: kartopu (tr)
• Ukrainian: кали́на f (kalýna)
• Volapük: viburn

Latin

Alternative forms

• vīburnus, vīburna

Etymology

Unknown, possibly Etruscan. Compare laburnum, alaternus, basterna, lacerna, santerna, pincerna, clarnus, all strongly suspected to be from Etruscan or a related language, although the sound sequence also occurs in words trusted to be native like sturnus, spinturnīx, cōturnīx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈbur.num/, [u̯iːˈbʊrnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈbur.num/, [viˈburnum]

Noun

vīburnum n (genitive vīburnī); second declension

1. viburnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīburnum	vīburna
Genitive	vīburnī	vīburnōrum
Dative	vīburnō	vīburnīs
Accusative	vīburnum	vīburna
Ablative	vīburnō	vīburnīs
Vocative	vīburnum	vīburna

Descendants

• Catalan: viorn
• French: viorne
• Italian: viburno

References

• viburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “viburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press