Etymology

serviceberry

S1E1R1V4I1C3E1B3E1R1R1Y4

Today it means: Several species of trees in the genus Sorbus, especially Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis. Full definition →

Latin sorbus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsorbus
  2. English todayserviceberry

Compound of service (“sorb tree”) + berry. (The first part is from Latin sorbus, not English service (“assistance”).)

Words from the same roots

Latinsorbus all →

sorbservice tree

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.