suber

From Latin sūber.

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).

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

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suber m (uncountable)

1. suber

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

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.^[1] However, an Indo-European etymology for the Germanic set is disputed; see *swīgā.^[2] Alternatively, it may be connected with Ancient Greek σῦφαρ (sûphar, “wrinkled skin”), from a third, perhaps substrate source, with an approximate form *sūbʰ-.^[3][4]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.ber]

sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension

1. cork oak, cork-tree
2. cork

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• sūbereus
• sūberīnus

• “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.

• super
• supre
• subre

From Latin super.

• IPA^(key): /suber/

suber

1. on, on top of, above

   Synonym: subra