cupressus

See also: Cupressus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσος (kŭpắrĭssos).

Pronunciation 1

Noun

cupressus m or f (genitive cupressī or cupressūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

  1. cypress (tree)
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.6.9-12:
      Ille mordaci uelut icta ferro / pinus aut inpulsa cupressus Euro / procidit late posuitque collum in / pulvere Teucro
      Like a pine-tree slashed by the bite of the axe, / or a cypress struck by an Easterly wind, / he fell, outstretched, to the earth, bowed down his neck / in the Trojan dust.
Declension
Second-declension masculine noun
singular plural
nominative cupressus cupressī
genitive cupressī cupressōrum
dative cupressō cupressīs
accusative cupressum cupressōs
ablative cupressō cupressīs
vocative cupresse cupressī
Fourth-declension feminine noun
singular plural
nominative cupressus cupressūs
genitive cupressūs cupressuum
dative cupressuī cupressibus
accusative cupressum cupressūs
ablative cupressū cupressibus
vocative cupressus cupressūs
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Aragonese: cupreso (Sarrablés)
  • Catalan: ciprés, ciprer, xiprer
  • English: cypress
  • French: cyprès
  • Italian: cipresso
  • Norman: cyprès (Jersey)
  • Piedmontese: sipress
  • Portuguese: cipreste
  • Spanish: ciprés

Pronunciation 2

Noun

cupressūs

  1. inflection of cupressus f:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References

  • cupressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cupressus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cupressus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016