viburnum

See also: Viburnum

English

Viburnum opulus

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīburnum.

Noun

viburnum (plural viburnums or viburna)

1. Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.
   • 1797, William [Fordyce] Mavor, “Travels in Japan and Other Countries, by Charles Peter Thunberg, […]”, in Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, volume XV, London: […] E[lizabeth] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 218:

     Thus he diſcovered two or three kinds of oaks, a few viburna, and ſome trees of the maple genus, with a wild ſort of Japaneſe pear.

   • 1927 January, E. Gérardin, “About the So-Called Musky Odours in the Three Kingdoms of Nature”, in La Parfumerie moderne : revue scientifique et de défense professionnelle, 20th year, number 1 (overall work in French), Lyon: Publications Pierre Argence, →OCLC, page 88, column 1:

     Adowa moschatellina. — Although it quite differs from the elder-trees, viburna and honey-suckles as far as the general appearance is concerned, says Siclain, it occurs in the neighbourhood of these plants.

   • 1980, Comparative Civilizations Bulletin‎^[1], volume 9, Dayton, Oh.: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     But such knowledge is simply ungermane to aesthetics. When one studies the biochemistry of plants, one may afterwards be more tolerant in one’s taste toward thornbushes and dandelions (for they too are wonderfully evolved) but still aesthetically prefer viburna and hyacinths for very good reasons that have nothing to do with botanical science.

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).

	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