Arbor

Noun

 * 1) A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
 * 2) An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
 * 3) A bar for supporting cutting tools.
 * 4) A spindle of a wheel.
 * 5) A grove of trees.

Adjectives for Arbor
rustic; flowering; sequestered; private;moving; gigantic; latticed; conical; bowery; sultry.

Thesaurus
alcove; axis; axle; axle bar; axle shaft; axle spindle; axle-tree; belvedere; bower; casino; conservatory; distaff; fulcrum; gazebo; gimbal; glasshouse; greenhouse; gudgeon; hinge; hingle; hub; kiosk; lathhouse; mandrel; nave; oarlock; pergola; pin; pintle; pivot; pole; radiant; retreat; rowlock; spindle; summerhouse; swivel; trunnion

Alternative forms

 * arbour (Chiefly British)

Etymology
From arbor:

Related terms

 * arboreal
 * arbor vitae

Translations

 * Finnish: vilpola
 * Russian: беседка


 * Spanish: cenado, pérgola

Anagrams

 * borra

Alternative forms

 * arbōs

Etymology
By rhotacism from arbos:, arbosis:, cognate with arduus:: the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /dh/ was shifted to /b/. From the.

Noun

 * 1) a tree
 * 2) * 29-19 BC — Virgil, Aeneis, book X
 * Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam / uulnera siccabat lymphis corpusque leuabat / arboris acclinis trunco
 * Meantime, his father at Tiber's flowing stream bathed his wounds in the clear water and his body leant against the trunk of a tree.
 * 1) mast (of a ship)
 * 2) javelin, shaft of a javelin
 * 3) a gallows

Synonyms

 * mālus
 * iaculum, pīlum

Derived terms

 * arborārius
 * arborātor
 * arborēscō


 * arborētum
 * arboreus / arborius
 * arbuscula

Related terms

 * arbuscula
 * arbustīvus
 * arbustō


 * arbustum
 * arbustus
 * arbutus

Descendants

 * Campidanese Sardinian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dalmatian:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Galician: árbore
 * Ido: arboro
 * Interlingua:
 * Istriot:
 * Italian: albero


 * Logudorese Sardinian: ,
 * Novial: arbre
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ја̑рбол
 * Roman: jȃrbol
 * Sicilian: àrbulu
 * Spanish: