myrtus

See also: Myrtus

Latin

Alternative forms

• murtus, myrta

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.tus/, [ˈmʏrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmir.tus/, [ˈmirt̪us]

Noun

myrtus f (genitive myrtī); second declension

1. 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	myrtus	myrtī
Genitive	myrtī	myrtōrum
Dative	myrtō	myrtīs
Accusative	myrtum	myrtōs
Ablative	myrtō	myrtīs
Vocative	myrte	myrtī

Derived terms

• myrtāceus
• myrtātum
• myrtētum
• myrteus
• myrtidanum

Related terms

• myrteolus
• myrtinus
• myrtītēs
• myrtum

Descendants

• Catalan: murta, murtra
• French: myrte
• Galician: mirto
• → German: Myrte
• Italian: mirto
• Polish: mirt
• Portuguese: mirto, mirta
• Romanian: mirt
• Spanish: murta

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