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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
myrtus f (genitive myrtī); second declension
- myrtle (tree)
- 23 B.C.E., Horace, Carmina, Book I:4.9-10
- Nunc decet aut uiridi nitidum caput impedire myrto / aut flore, terrae quem ferunt solutae
- Now its right to garland our gleaming heads, with green myrtle or flowers, / whatever the unfrozen earth now bears
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “myrtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “myrtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- myrtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “myrtus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers