cembra
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin cembra.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕmʹbrə, IPA(key): /ˈsɛmbɹə/
Noun[edit]
cembra (plural cembras)
- The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.
- 1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running[1]:
- Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.
- 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches[2]:
- Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
- 1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II[3]:
- It consists principally of pines: the cembra pine (Pinus Cembra, L.), valued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-formed Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, LEDEB.), the fir (Pinus obovata, TURCZ.), and scattered trees of the common pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.)
Synonyms[edit]
- (Pinus cembra): Swiss stone pine, arolla pine
Translations[edit]
Pinus cembra — see Swiss pine
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish cimbra, derived from cimbrar (“to rock; to sway”), from Vulgar Latin *cīnctūrāre, derived from Classical Latin cīnctūra (“belt”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cembra f (plural cembre)
- (architecture) a type of molding
Further reading[edit]
- cembra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration of the dialectal German Zember.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛmbrä]
Noun[edit]
cembra f (genitive cembrae); first declension
- (New Latin) Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cembra.
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cembra | cembrae |
Genitive | cembrae | cembrārum |
Dative | cembrae | cembrīs |
Accusative | cembram | cembrās |
Ablative | cembrā | cembrīs |
Vocative | cembra | cembrae |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Translingual: Hoya cembrae, Ips cembrae, Pinus cembra
- English: cembra
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