noun · neutersecond declension
arbutum
arbutum n (genitive arbutī)
Meaning
- neuterthe fruit of the strawberry tree; (metonymically) the strawberry-tree, arbute
Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis, glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae; et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
Translation by James B. Greenough Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield; So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.519
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | arbutum | arbuta |
| genitive | arbutī | arbutōrum |
| dative | arbutō | arbutīs |
| accusative | arbutum | arbuta |
| ablative | arbutō | arbutīs |
| vocative | arbutum | arbuta |
arbŭtum (arbĭtum, Lucr. 5, 941), i, n. id.,
I. the fruit of the arbute or strawberrytree, the wild strawberry.
I. Lit.:
quae nunc hiberno tempore cernis Arbita puniceo fieri matura colore, Lucr. 5, 941: glandes atque arbuta vel pira lecta (as the food of man in the state of nature; cf. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 4), id. 5, 963; so Verg. G. 1, 148; 2, 520.—II. Meton.
A. = arbutus, the arbute or strawberry-tree:
jubeo frondentia capris Arbuta sufficere, i. e. frondes arbuti, that you give the goats a supply of arbuteshoots, Verg. G. 3, 300; cf. id. E. 3, 82; so id. G. 4, 181.—B. A tree, in gen., Rutil. Itin. 1, 31. (The gram. Phocas considers arbuta in the signif. A. and B. as heterogen. from arbutus; v. Phoc. Ars, p. 1706 P., p. 338 Lind.)
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
arbutum ī, n
arbutus, the fruit of the arbutus, wild strawberry: dant arbuta silvae, V.—The arbutus, strawberry-tree: frondentia, V.