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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
ciprés m (plural cipressos)
- Alternative form of xiprer (“cypress”)
Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese çipres, ultimately from Occitan cipres, from Late Latin cypressus, from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos). First attested in 1493.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛs
- Hyphenation: ci‧prés
Noun
ciprés m (plural cipreses)
- cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
- Synonym: alcipreste
- cypress wood
- Synonym: alcipreste
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ciprés”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ciprés”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ciprés”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cipres, from Late Latin cypressus, from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈpɾes/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈpɾes/
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: ci‧prés
Noun
ciprés m (plural cipreses)
- cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
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