cembra

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin cembra.

Pronunciation

Noun

cembra (plural cembras)

  1. The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.
    • 1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running:
      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:
      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:
      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.)

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Latin

Etymology

Alteration of the dialectal German Zember.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkem.bra/, [ˈkɛm.bra]

Noun

cembra f (genitive cembrae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) the Swiss stone pine, Pinus cembra
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cembra.

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cembra cembrae
Genitive cembrae cembrārum
Dative cembrae cembrīs
Accusative cembram cembrās
Ablative cembrā cembrīs
Vocative cembra cembrae

Derived terms

  • cembroīdēs

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