laburnum

Latin laburnum

laburnum (plural laburnums)

1. Any tree of genus Laburnum. They have bright yellow flowers and are poisonous.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

• alburnum

Probably from a Mediterranean substrate language or Etruscan.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈbur.num/, [ɫaˈbʊr.nũ]

laburnum n (genitive laburnī); second declension

1. plant of the genus Laburnum

Second declension.

• laburnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette