poplar: [14] The ancestor of poplar was Latin pōpulus ‘poplar’ (not to be confused with populus ‘people’). This passed into Old French as pople, which with the addition of the treename suffix -ier became poplier. Its Anglo- Norman version was popler, from which English got poplar.
poplar (n.)
mid-14c., from Anglo-French popler, from Old French poplier (13c., Modern French peulplier), from Latin populus "poplar" (with a long "o;" not the same word that produced popular), of unknown origin, possibly from a PIE tree-name root *p(y)el- (cognates: Greek pelea "elm"). Italian pioppo, Spanish chopo, German pappel, Old Church Slavonic topoli all are from Latin.
例文
1. There 's a bench under a poplar tree.
ポプラの木の下にベンチがある.
2.Crows cawed from the poplar trees overhead.
ポプラの木のカラスが上空でゲロゲロしている。
3.The white poplar is no ordinary tree.Let me sing its praises.
ポプラの木は本当に平凡ではありません。ポプラの木を賛美します！
4.After a while，we found a shady place under some poplar trees.
しばらくして、いくつかのポプラの木の下に日陰を見つけた。
5.Daylight was dying，the moon rising，gold behind the poplar ！