cypress

See also cy pres

English

Cypress

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kuparissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; see Hebrew גפר (gopher), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).

Pronunciation

• (RP, US) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.prəs/

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• Homophone: Cyprus

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

1. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis

Translations

an evergreen coniferous tree

• Ancient Greek: κυπάρισσος (kuparissos)
• Arabic: سروة (ar) (sarwa) f, سرو (ar) (sarw) m pl
• Armenian: նոճի (hy) (noč̣i)
• Bulgarian: кипарис (bg) (kiparís)
• Catalan: xiprer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏樹 (cmn), 柏树 (cmn) (bǎishù, bóshù)

• Czech: cypřiš (cs) m
• Dutch: cipres (nl) m
• Esperanto: cipreso (eo)
• Finnish: sypressi (fi)
• French: cyprès (fr) m
• German: Zypresse (de) f
• Greek: κυπαρίσσι (el) (kiparisi) n
• Hebrew: ברוש (he) (brosh) m
• Hungarian: ciprus (hu), ciprusfa (hu)
• Ido: cipreso (io)
• Italian: cipresso (it) m

• Japanese: サイプレス (ja) (saipuresu), 糸杉 (ja) (いとすぎ, itosugi)
• Latin: cupressus (la)
• Macedonian: чемпрес (mk) (čempres)
• Nahuatl: tlatskakuauitl (nah), tlatskan (nah)
• Norwegian: sypress (no) m
• Occitan: cipres (oc)
• Polish: cyprys (pl) m
• Portuguese: cipreste (pt) m
• Russian: кипарис (ru) (kiparís) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чемпрес (sh) m

  Roman: čempres (sh) m

• Spanish: ciprés (es) m
• Swahili: mvinje (sw)
• Swedish: cypress (sv) c
• Turkish: servi (tr)

See also

• Cypress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Swedish

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

Declension of cypress

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cypress	cypressen	cypresser	cypresserna
genitive	cypress	cypressens	cypressers	cypressernas