suber

See also: Suber

English

Etymology

From Latin sūber.

Noun

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).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• suberic
• suberic acid
• suberin
• suberize, suberization
• suberose
• suberous

Anagrams

• rebus, erubs, Bures, Ubers, burse, resub, Ruebs, urbes, bures, rubes, Reubs, buers, Burse

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

suber m (uncountable)

1. suber

Further reading

• “suber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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. However, an Indo-European etymology for the Germanic set is disputed; see *swīgā. Alternatively, it may be connected with Ancient Greek σῦφαρ (sûphar, “wrinkled skin”), from a third, perhaps substrate source, with an approximate form *sūbʰ-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ber/, [ˈs̠uːbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ber/, [ˈsuːber]

Noun

sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension

1. cork oak, cork-tree
2. cork

Declension

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

Derived terms

• sūbereus
• sūberīnus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: sughero, suvero
  • Neapolitan: surve, survo
  • Sicilian: sùviru
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: sùver
  • Friulian: sûr
  • Venetan: sóvaro, sóaro, suro
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: zuro
  • Catalan: suro, suiro, súrio, suire, siure
    • → Spanish: zuro (or from Aragonese)
  • Occitan:

    Languedocien: siure, seure, sieure, siuse

    Provençal: suve, subre, siure

    Vivaro-Alpine: suve, siure

• Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Galician: sobreira
  • Portuguese: sobro ⇒ sobreiro
    • → Leonese: sobreru (Salamanca)
      • → Spanish: sobrero
• Borrowings:
  • → Arabic: شُبِر (šubir)
  • → English: suber, ⇒ suberose
  • → French: suber ⇒ subéreux
    • → Romanian: suber
  • → Italian: subero

References

• “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.

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• super
• supre
• subre

Etymology

From Latin super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suber/

Preposition

suber

1. on, on top of, above

   Synonym: subra