cupressus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).

Pronunciation

Noun

cupressus f (genitive cupressī); second declension
cupressus f (genitive cupressūs); fourth declension
cupressus m (genitive cupressī); second 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 noun.

singular plural
nominative cupressus cupressī
genitive cupressī cupressōrum
dative cupressō cupressīs
accusative cupressum cupressōs
ablative cupressō cupressīs
vocative cupresse cupressī

Derived terms

Descendants

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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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