sorbus

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Latin > English

sorbus sorbi N F :: sorb/service tree (Pyrus domestica); sorb, service-berry/apple (L+S)

sorbus: i, f.,
I the true sorb- or servicetree: Sorbus domestica, Linn.; Col. 5, 10, 19; Plin. 16, 18, 30, § 74; Pall. Jan. 15, 1 al.

sorbus,¹⁶ ī, f., sorbier : Col. Rust. 5, 10 ; Plin. 16, 74.

sorbus, ī, f., der Sperberbaum, Arlesbeerbaum (Sorbus torminalis, L.), Colum. u. Plin.