cupressus

See also: Cupressus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cypressus (Late Latin)
• cyparissus (only in Virgil)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊˈprɛs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈprɛs.sus]

Noun

cupressus m or f (genitive cupressī or cupressūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

1. cypress (tree)
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.6.9-12:

     Ille mordaci uelut icta ferro / pinus aut inpulsa cupressus Euro / procidit late posuitque collum in / pulvere Teucro

     Like a pine-tree slashed by the bite of the axe, / or a cypress struck by an Easterly wind, / he fell, outstretched, to the earth, bowed down his neck / in the Trojan dust.

Declension

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cupressus	cupressī cupressūs
genitive	cupressī cupressūs	cupressōrum cupressuum
dative	cupressō cupressuī	cupressīs cupressibus
accusative	cupressum	cupressōs cupressūs
ablative	cupressō cupressū	cupressīs cupressibus
vocative	cupresse cupressus	cupressī cupressūs

Derived terms

• cupressētum
• cupresseus
• cupressifer

Related terms

• cupressinus / cupressīnus

Descendants

• → Aragonese: cupreso (Sarrablés)
• Catalan: ciprés, ciprer, xiprer
• → English: cypress
• → French: cyprès
• → Italian: cipresso
• → Norman: cyprès (Jersey)
• Piedmontese: sipress
• Portuguese: cipreste
• → Spanish: ciprés

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊˈprɛs.suːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈprɛs.sus]

Noun

cupressūs

1. inflection of cupressus f:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

References

• “cupressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cupressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• cupressus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016