The Latin word for tree is
arbor
Translations for tree and their definitions
| arbor | |
| 1. n. a tree | |
| felix arbor - a fruit-bearing tree | |
| arbores serere - to plant trees | |
| (specifically with the genitive of the species) arbor alni - an alder tree | |
| arbores ficorum - fig trees | |
| 2. n. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood | |
| arbore mali - the mast (of a ship) | |
| centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens - an oar | |
| Pelias arbor - Pelias's ship, the ship Argo | |
| - the shaft of a javelin, a javelin | |
| - the lever or bar of a press, press-beam | |
| arbor infelix - a gallows, gibbet | |
| 3. n. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree) | |
| 4. n. singular vocative of arbor |
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