laburnum

See also: Laburnum

English

Laburnum anagyroides

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin

Noun

laburnum (plural laburnums)

  1. Any tree of genus Laburnum. They have bright yellow flowers and are poisonous.
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
      Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]
    • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
      The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

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Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Mediterranean substrate language or Etruscan.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈbur.num/, [ɫaˈbʊr.nũ]

Noun

laburnum n (genitive laburnī); second declension

  1. Plant of the genus Laburnum

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative laburnum laburna
genitive laburnī laburnōrum
dative laburnō laburnīs
accusative laburnum laburna
ablative laburnō laburnīs
vocative laburnum laburna

References

  • laburnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • laburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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