arbustum

From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -tum (“adjective-forming suffix”). Cf. with the later arborētum via rebracketing.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈbʊs.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈbus.t̪um]

arbustum n (genitive arbustī); second declension

1. a plantation, orchard; especially a vineyard planted with trees (on which vines would grow)
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.416:

     Iam vinctae vites, iam falcem arbusta reponunt

     The tree-climbing vine with its vineyard still fears the steel.

2. (chiefly poetic) woods, place overgrown with trees, thicket
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.327–330:

     Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
     Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
     currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
     […]

     • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900

       When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
       And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
       Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
       From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
       […]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• arbustīvus
• arbustō

• “arbustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "arbustum", 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)
• “arbustum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.