arbutum

arbutum

1. accusative singular of arbutus

arbutum n (genitive arbutī); second declension

1. the fruit of the strawberry tree; (metonymically) the strawberry-tree, arbute
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.519:

     Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
     glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
     et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
     mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.

     • 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.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “arbutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arbutum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arbutum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers