cedar

See also: Cedar and çedar

English

Cedrus atlantica
Atlas cedar

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English cedre, probably from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

Some suggest that the Middle English word was partially from Old English ċeder, but the gap in attestation between the two words makes this proposal unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.də/
• (US) enPR: sēʹdər, IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dɚ/

• audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: seeder

Noun

cedar (countable and uncountable, plural cedars)

2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:

     There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.

4. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
5. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.

Derived terms

• Alaska cedar
• Alaska yellow cedar
• Atlantic cedar
• Atlantic white cedar
• Atlas cedar
• Barbados bastard cedar
• Barbados cedar
• bastard cedar
• Bermuda cedar
• Brazilian cedar
• British Columbian cedar
• Bussaco cedar
• Californian white cedar
• Canary cedar
• Cape cedar
• cedar apple
• cedar-apple rust
• cedar ball
• Cedar Beach
• cedar bird
• Cedar Bluff
• Cedar Bluffs
• cedar camphor
• cedar chest
• Cedar City
• cedar closet
• Cedar County
• Cedar Crest
• cedared
• cedar elm
• Cedar Falls
• Cedar Fire
• Cedar Forest
• Cedar Fort
• Cedar Glen Lakes
• Cedar Glen West
• cedar green, cedar-green
• Cedar Grove
• Cedar Hill
• Cedar Hill Lakes
• Cedar Hills
• Cedar Island
• Cedar Key
• Cedar Lake
• cedar leaf oil
• cedar-like
• cedar mahogany
• cedar marble
• Cedar Mill
• Cedar Mills
• Cedar Mountain
• cedarn
• cedar-nut
• cedar of Goa (Cupressus lusitanica)
• cedar of Lebanon
• cedar oil
• Cedar Park
• Cedar Rapids
• Cedar Revolution
• Cedar River
• cedar robe
• cedar shake
• cedar shingle
• cedar siding
• Cedar Springs
• cedar-swamp
• Cedar Township
• Cedar Vale
• Cedar Valley
• cedar waxwing
• cedar-wood, cedarwood
• cedar wood oil
• cedary
• Chilean cedar
• Chinese cedar
• cigar-box cedar
• coast white cedar
• Cyprus cedar
• deodar cedar
• Dominica cedar
• east African cedar
• eastern red cedar
• East Indian cedar
• false cedar
• Goa cedar
• ground cedar
• Himalayan cedar
• Honduras cedar
• incense cedar
• Jamaica cedar
• Japan cedar
• Japanese cedar
• Lawson's cedar
• Lebanon cedar
• Mexican cedar
• Nootka cedar
• oil of cedar
• Oregon cedar
• Oregon white cedar
• pencil cedar
• pencil-wood cedar
• Philippine cedar
• Port Orford white cedar
• prickly cedar
• red Australian cedar
• red Californian cedar
• red cedar
• redcedar
• Russian cedar
• salt cedar
• Singapore cedar
• southern red cedar
• southern white cedar
• Spanish cedar
• stinking cedar
• true cedar
• Turkish cedar
• Virginia red cedar
• water cedar
• West Indian cedar
• white cedar
• whitecedar
• yellow cedar

 

Related terms

• cedr-
• Cedrela
• cedrelaceous
• cedrelate
• cedrine

Translations

coniferous tree in genus Cedrus

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /erēnu/)
• Albanian: cedra (sq) ?, kedra ?, cedër (sq) m
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bigad

• Arabic: أَرْز‎ m (ʾarz)

  Egyptian Arabic: ارز‎ m (arz) (collective), ارزة‎ f (arza) (singulative)

  Moroccan Arabic: أرز‎ m (arz) (uncountable), أرزة‎ f (arza) (countable)

• Aramaic:

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַרְזָא‎ m (ʾarzā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: ארזא‎ m (/*ʾarzā/)

  Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܐܪܙܐ‎ m (/*ʾarzā/)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܪܙܐ‎ m (ʾarzā)

  Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡆𐡀‎ m (ʾrzʾ)

• Armenian: մայրի (hy) (mayri)

  Old Armenian: մայր (mayr), սարդ (sard) (cedar of Lebanon)

• Azerbaijani: sidr
• Basque: zedro
• Bulgarian: ке́дър m (kédǎr)
• Catalan: cedre m
• Central Sierra Miwok: čapa·há-
• Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎾ (atsina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西洋杉 (zh) (xīyángshān), 香柏 (xiāngbó)

• Choctaw: chuała
• Czech: cedr (cs) m
• Danish: ceder c, cedertræ n
• Dutch: ceder (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ꜥš m)
• Esperanto: cedro (eo)
• Estonian: seeder
• Faroese: sedristræ n, sedrisviður m
• Finnish: setri (fi), setripuu
• French: cèdre (fr) m
• Galician: cidreira (gl) m
• Georgian: კედარი (ka) (ḳedari)
• German: Zeder (de) f
• Greek: κέδρος (el) m (kédros)

  Ancient: κέδρος f (kédros)

• Hakka: [script needed] (hiông-pak-su)
• Hawaiian: ʻaleka
• Hebrew: אֶרֶז‎ (he) m (ʾérez)
• Hindi: देवदार (hi) m (devdār)
• Hungarian: cédrus (hu), cédrusfa (hu)
• Icelandic: sedrus (is) m
• Ido: cedro (io)
• Irish: céadar m
• Italian: cedro (it) m

• Japanese: ヒマラヤ杉 (ヒマラヤスギ, himarayasugi)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Komi-Zyrian: сус (sus)
• Korean: 개잎갈 나무 (gaeipgal namu), 시다 (ko) (sida)
• Ladino: sedro m
• Latin: cedrus f
• Latvian: ciedrs ?
• Lingala: sedre ?
• Lithuanian: kedras ?
• Macedonian: кедар m (kedar)
• Manx: cedar ?
• Maori: hīta
• Middle English: cedre
• Mongolian: хуш (mn) (khush)
• Nanai: колдон
• Norman: cèdre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seder (no) m

  Nynorsk: seder m

• Old English: ceder f
• Pennsylvania German: Zeedrebaam m
• Persian: سرو‎ (fa) (sarv), سدر‎ (fa) (sedr)
• Piedmontese: sedro m
• Plautdietsch: Zeedaboom m
• Polish: cedr (pl) m
• Portuguese: cedro m
• Romanian: cedru (ro) m
• Russian: кедр (ru) m (kedr)
• Sanskrit: देवदारु (sa) m or n (devadāru)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏дар m, ке̏дар m

  Roman: cȅdar (sh) m, kȅdar (sh) m

• Slovak: céder (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cedra f

  Upper Sorbian: cedra f

• Spanish: cedro (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /eren/)
• Swahili: mwerezi m-mi
• Swedish: ceder (sv) c
• Tagalog: sedro
• Taos: hų̂nemą
• Tibetan: ཐང་ཁྲག (thang khrag)
• Turkish: sedir (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سدر‎ (sedir)

• Tuvan: пөш (pöş)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎇 m (ảrz)
• Urdu: دیودار‎ ? (devdār)
• Walloon: cede (wa) m
• Welsh: cedrwydd f pl
• Yiddish: צעדרבוים‎ m (tsedrboym), צעדר‎ ? (tsedr)

coniferous tree in family Cupressaceae

• German: Zypressengewächs n

aromatic wood

• Choctaw: chuała
• Czech: cedr (cs) m
• Danish: ceder c, cedertræ n
• Dutch: ceder (nl) m, cederhout (nl) n
• Faroese: sedrisviður m
• Finnish: setri (fi)
• French: cèdre (fr) m
• German: Zeder (de) f, Zedernholz (de) n
• Hungarian: cédrus (hu), cédrusfa (hu)
• Ido: cedro (io)

• Italian: cedro (it) m
• Navajo: dilkʼis
• Norman: cèdre m (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Zeeda m
• Polish: cedr (pl) m
• Portuguese: cedro m
• Russian: кедр (ru) m (kedr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏дровина f, кедровина f

  Roman: cȅdrovina (sh) f, kedrovina f

• Swedish: cederträ (sv) n, ceder (sv) c

Anagrams

• Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

---

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cedi, English cede, French céder, Italian cedere, Spanish ceder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡seˈdar/

Verb

cedar (present tense cedas, past tense cedis, future tense cedos, imperative cedez, conditional cedus)

1. (transitive) to cede

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cedar

		present		past		future
infinitive		cedar		cedir		cedor
tense		cedas		cedis		cedos
conditional		cedus
imperative		cedez
adjective active participle		cedanta		cedinta		cedonta
adverbial active participle		cedante		cedinte		cedonte
nominal active participle	singular	cedanto		cedinto		cedonto
	plural	cedanti		cedinti		cedonti
adjective passive participle		cedata		cedita		cedota
adverbial passive participle		cedate		cedite		cedote
nominal passive participle	singular	cedato		cedito		cedoto
	plural	cedati		cediti		cedoti

---

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.dar/, [ˈkeːd̪är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.dar/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪är]

Verb

cēdar

1. inflection of cēdō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

---

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cȅdar m (Cyrillic spelling це̏дар)

1. cedar (tree)

Declension

Declension of cedar

	singular	plural
nominative	cedar	cedrovi
genitive	cedra	cedrova
dative	cedru	cedrovima
accusative	cedra	cedrove
vocative	cedre	cedrovi
locative	cedru	cedrovima
instrumental	cedrom	cedovrima

Derived terms

• cȅdrovina