citrus

See also: Citrus

English

Etymology

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.tɹəs/

Noun

citrus (plural citruses)

1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

Derived terms

• citral
• citrantin
• citric acid
• citropten
• citrusin
• Citrus County
• citrus fruit

Translations

shrub or tree

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柑橘 (zh) (gānjú), 柑橘屬／柑橘属 (gānjúshǔ), 柑橘属 (gānjúshǔ), 柑橘類／柑橘类 (zh) (gānjúlèi), 柑橘类 (zh) (gānjúlèi)

• Finnish: sitruspuu (fi)
• French: citrus (fr) du or m
• Ido: citruso (io)
• Irish: crann citris m
• Italian: agrume (it) m
• Korean: 감귤류 (gamgyullyu), 시트러스 (siteureoseu)
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• Latin: citrus f
• Malay: sitrus, limau
• Occitan: agrum m, agrume m
• Persian: بادرنگ (bādrang)
• Portuguese: citro (pt) m
• Russian: ци́трус (ru) m (cítrus)
• Spanish: cítrico (es) m
• Swedish: citrusträd n

fruit — see citrus fruit

Adjective

citrus (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.

Anagrams

• Curtis, rictus, rustic

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Latin

Etymology

Probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈki.trus/, [ˈkɪt̪rʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.trus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt̪rus]

Noun

citrus f (genitive citrī); second declension

1. citron tree
2. thuja

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	citrus	citrī
Genitive	citrī	citrōrum
Dative	citrō	citrīs
Accusative	citrum	citrōs
Ablative	citrō	citrīs
Vocative	citre	citrī

Descendants

• Translingual: Citrus

References

• “citrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• citrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)