érable

maple

“Le sirop d'érable est récolté dans les forêts du nord-est de l'Amérique du Nord, particulièrement au Québec.” — Maple syrup is harvested in the forests of the northeast of North America, particularly in Quebec.

Related: érable à sucre, érable noir, érablière

Inherited from Old French airable, from older arable, from Gallic Vulgar Latin or Late Latin acerābulus, from Latin acer (“maple”) + Gaulish *aballo- (“apple-tree”). Compare Old Irish ficabull (“fig-tree”), Welsh criafol (“mountain-ash”).