suber

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin sūber.

Noun

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suber (uncountable)

  1. (dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.
    • 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page 39:
      In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber).

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Noun

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suber m (uncountable)

  1. suber

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Latin

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Etymology

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Disputed. According to one hypothesis, it is from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Old High German swigen (to be silent) and its West Germanic cognates, possibly a reference to cork being stripped without harming the tree.[1] However, an Indo-European etymology for the Germanic set is disputed; see *swīgā.[2] Alternatively, it may be connected with Ancient Greek σῦφαρ (sûphar, wrinkled skin), from a third, perhaps substrate source, with an approximate form *sūbʰ-.[3][4]

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Noun

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sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension

  1. cork oak, cork-tree
  2. cork

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sūber sūbera
Genitive sūberis sūberum
Dative sūberī sūberibus
Accusative sūber sūbera
Ablative sūbere sūberibus
Vocative sūber sūbera

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References

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  • suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swīgēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 501
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sūber, -ris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 595
  4. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦφαρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1425–1426

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin super.

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Preposition

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suber

  1. on, on top of, above
    Synonym: subra