ebulum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown, but likely related to Old Prussian addle (“spruce, fir”), Latvian egle (“spruce, fir”), Lithuanian ẽglė (“spruce”), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (“spruce”) (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ-l-.[1] Perhaps (though less likely) related to Gaulish odocos (“elder”), whence Late Latin odecus, odicus and Old High German attuh, attah (“dwarf-elder, danewort”) (modern German Attich), from the same root *h₁edʰ-;[2] however, Pokorny's derivation of this term from a root meaning “pointy” (stechend in the original German) is very unlikely.[3] In the absence of a solid Indo-European etymology, it may thus be a European substrate word.[4]

Noun

ebulum n (genitive ebulī); second declension

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
    2. danewort, dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ebulum ebula
Genitive ebulī ebulōrum
Dative ebulō ebulīs
Accusative ebulum ebula
Ablative ebulō ebulīs
Vocative ebulum ebula

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ebbio
      Central Italian: lebbio (with agglutination of l')
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: gneul, jeul
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: yabo
    • Asturian: yerbu
    • Spanish: yeblo
  • Borrowings:

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ebulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 185
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “*edh-lo-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 289
  3. Genaust, Helmut (1996) “ébulus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 220b–221a
  4. Oettinger, Norbert (2003) “Neuerungen in Lexikon und Wortbildung des Nordwest-Indogermanischen”, in Alfred Bammesberger & Theo Vennemann, editors, Languages in Prehistoric Europe, Heidelberg: Winter, →ISBN, page 189

Further reading
  • “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ebulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ebulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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