A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Arbor, gen. sg. arboris (s.f.III), abl. sg. arbore, nom.+ acc. pl. arbores, gen. pl. arborum, dat. & abl. pl. arboribus: tree, q.v.;

Arbor (Lat. tree), “a woody perennial plant, having a bole from which the branches spring” (Jackson).

- arbores partibus novellis saepe lepidotis v. stellato-tomentellis (B&H), trees with the young parts often lepidote [i.e. scaley] or stellate-tomentellous.

- habitat in sylvis ad arborum radices, it grows in forests at the roots of trees.

- arbor 15-20 m alta, coma lata fere aeque lata ac longa, tree 15-20 m tall, with a broad crown almost equally wide and long.

- in arbore angiospermatica, non gymnospermatica, in an angiospermous, not gymnospermous tree.

- arbor montana, mountain-dwelling tree.

- arborem in locum alium transposita, a tree transplanted into another place.

- planta frutex vel arbor parva, plant a shrub or small tree.

- In Ostiensi litore, & praecipue circa Тyberis fauces super neglectas arbores (Mich.), on the shore of Ostia and especially around the mouth of the Tyber upon neglected trees.

- Juniperus quoque apud nos in ericetis frequentissima, caesa aut a jumentis depasta plerunque [sic] fruitcat; sin permittatur nec violetur in arborem adolescit (Ray), the Juniper [s.f.II], also, among our people is very common in heath-lands, after having been cut down or grazed upon by draught animals, usually becomes bushy; but if it is left untended nor molested it grows up [i.e. matures] into a tree.

Individual tree types: arbor + specific tree name as a noun in the genitive sg. or

the adjective or gen.sg. modifying ‘arbor:’

- abietis arbores, fir trees; arbor alni (alnus), the alder tree; arbor fici, the fig tree; arbores ficorum; arbor palmae, the palm tree;

- arbor cupressus, the cypress (adj.) arbor sycomori, a sycamore tree, classically the mulberry tree, see sycaminus,-i (s.f.II); arbor mori, the mulberry tree; arbores olivarum, olive trees; arbor Jovis: the oak-tree, tree of Jove; arbor Phoebi, the laurel-tree, tree of Phoebus.