Arbusto, arbustas, arbustâre. Plin. To set a place with trees for vines to grow by.
Arbustum, arbusti. Colum. A groue of any kind of trees: an orcharde of fruite trees: a hopparde or a diyarde, where dines grow vp by trees.Arbusta alta. Lucret. Læta. Lucret. Resonant arbusta cicadis.Virg.Arbusta cantu rumpunt cicadæ.Virg.Inuenustum arbustum. Col. Arbustîuus. pen. prod. Adiectiuum, vt Arbustiuæ vites. Colum. Viues planted in order by trees.Arbustiuus locus, pro Arbusto. Col. A groue: an orthard.Arbustiua positio. Col. Arbustiuum genus. Col.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
arbusto, āre, v. a. [id.], to plant with trees: Transpadana Italia, cornu, populo, quercu arbustat agros, Plin. 17, 23, 35, 201.
arbustum, i, n. [qs. for arbosetum from arbos, as virgultum for virguletum, salictum for salicetum, etc.; an inferior form is arboretum, q. v.], a place where trees are planted (esp. trees, about which the vine was trained), an orchard, plantation, vineyard planted with trees, dendrw/n (while vinea was one in which the vine lay upon the earth, or was supported by poles): Jam vinctae vites, jam falcem arbusta reponunt, Verg. G. 2, 416. I.Lit.: vinea est prima ... septimo silva caedua, octavo arbustum, nono glandaria silva, Cato, R. R. 1, 7: In fundo suum quicquid conseri oportet arbustoque vitem copulari, id. ib. 7, 1; Cic. Sen. 15, 54; Col. 5, 6, 37; 5, 7, 1; id. Arb. 1, 3; 16, 2; Plin. 17, 23, 35, 207; Pall. Feb. 10, 1; Hor. C. 3, 1, 10; id. S. 1, 7, 29 al.—II.Transf., for the most part in the plur. collect. for arbores, in the poets, on account of its quantity, ārbŏrēs: locos, Ingenio arbusta ubi nata sunt, non obsita, Naev. ap. Non. p. 323, 2 (Trag. Rel. p. 10 Rib.): e terrāque exorta repente arbusta salirent,
trees springing up suddenly from the earth
,
shot forth
, Lucr. 1, 187: florescunt tempore certo arbusta,
trees blossom at the appointed time
, id. 5, 671; so id. 1, 351; 1, 806; 1, 808; 2, 188; 2, 1016; 5, 912; 5, 1378; 6, 141; Verg. E. 1, 40; 2, 13; 4, 2; 5, 64; id. G. 3, 328; id. Copa, 27; id. A. 10, 363; Ov. M. 1, 286; 2, 710 al.—So also perh. in the sing. for a single tree: cum me arbustum videre Miconis incidere falce, Verg. E. 3, 10.—In the Vulg. only in plur., and there for rami, boughs, branches: arbusta ejus (vitis) cedros Dei, Psa. 79, 11: Multiplicata sunt arbusta ejus, Ezech. 31, 5; 31, 7; 31, 12.
arbustus, a, um, adj. [arbos, arbor]. I.Set or planted with trees: ager, Cic. Rep. 5, 2: locus, Col. 3, 13, 6; Plin. 10, 29, 41, 77.— II. Arbusta vitis for arbustiva, fastened to or trained upon a tree, Plin. 17, 23, 35, 207.— Comp.: arbustiores res, trop., firmer, surer, more settled circumstances (the figure drawn from vines, which are supported on trees more firmly than upon frames), Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 29.