spruce

Etymology
From, an alteration of , from , from a language, probably ; for more, see Prussia. , (1412), and  (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by  (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully.
 * 2)  The wood of a spruce.
 * 3)  Made of the wood of the spruce.
 * 4)  Prussian leather; pruce.
 * 1)  Prussian leather; pruce.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аԥсаӡ
 * Afrikaans: spar
 * Albanian: bredhi i zi, hormoç
 * Alemannic German: Fichte
 * Arabic: تَنُّوب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: шыршы
 * Basque: picea
 * Belarusian: ёлка, ялі́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: avet roig
 * Chechen: база
 * Cheyenne: šéstótó'e
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: чӑрӑш
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: grån
 * Erzya: куз
 * Esperanto: piceo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: grann
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: peç
 * Galician: picea
 * Georgian: ნაძვი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: orpiliassaq
 * Gwich'in: ts'iivii
 * Hawaiian: lāʻau hū
 * Hebrew: אשוחית
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: picea
 * Inupiaq: napaaqtuq
 * Irish: sprús
 * Italian: abete rosso, peccio
 * Japanese:, バラモミ, マツハダ, エゾマツ
 * Kashubian: dana
 * Kazakh: шырша
 * Khakas: тіген
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 가문비 나무
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: egle
 * Latin: picea
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: sjpar
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: paghéra, peghéra, pighéra
 * Low German: Fücht
 * Luxembourgish: Fiicht, Fiichten
 * Macedonian: смрча
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠴᠤᠷ᠎ᠠ
 * Navajo: chʼó
 * Norman: sapîn
 * Northern Sami: guossa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: gran
 * Occitan: picea
 * Ossetian: назты
 * Piedmontese: sapin
 * Plautdietsch: Fijcht
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: abeto vermelho, pícea,
 * Quechua: pisya
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Salar: sompa
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: кӯсс
 * Samogitian: eglė
 * Saterland Frisian: Kjuusdanne
 * Scottish Gaelic: giuthas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: škrjok
 * Upper Sorbian: šmrěk
 * Southern Altai: ёлка
 * Spanish: pícea
 * Swahili: msprusi
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: pʼȍkʼúowoną
 * Tatar: еш, серше, терке
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: шиви
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Vietnamese: vân sam
 * Walloon: epiceya
 * Welsh: sbriws
 * Yakut: харыйа


 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , granbrænde
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: grann, grannviður
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: gran
 * Portuguese: pícea, abeto vermelho
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: giuthas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:, granträ


 * Czech:
 * Danish: gran-
 * Finnish: kuusipuinen,
 * Icelandic: greni-
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: gran
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: gran-

Adjective

 * 1)  Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: breabhsánta
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To arrange neatly; tidy up.
 * 2)  To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
 * 3) To tease.