cyparissus

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ky.paˈris.sus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.paˈris.sus/,

Noun

cyparissus f (genitive cyparissī); second declension

(hapax) Alternative form of cupressus
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.677–681:
  cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
  Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis,
  concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso
  aeriae quercus aut coniferae cyparissi
  constiterunt, silva alta Iovis lucusve Dianae.
  Translation by David West
  We saw the brotherhood of Etna standing there helpless, each with his one eye glaring and head held high in the sky, a fearsome gathering, standing like high-topped mountain oaks or cone-bearing cypresses in Jupiter's soaring forest or the grove of Diana.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cyparissus	cyparissī
genitive	cyparissī	cyparissōrum
dative	cyparissō	cyparissīs
accusative	cyparissum	cyparissōs
ablative	cyparissō	cyparissīs
vocative	cyparisse	cyparissī

References

“cyparissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cyparissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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