laurus

See also: Laurus

Latin

Alternative forms

• daurus (laurel)

Etymology

From Old Latin dacrus. Related to Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”), whence also the given name Δάφνη (Dáphnē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯rʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈläːu̯rus]

Noun

laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension

1. laurel tree
2. (metonymically) laurels; a crown of laurel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	laurus	laurī
Genitive	laurī	laurōrum
Dative	laurō	laurīs
Accusative	laurum	laurōs
Ablative	laurō	laurīs
Vocative	laure	laurī

Synonyms

• (laurel tree): laurea
• (crown of laurel): laurea

Derived terms

• *laurārius
• laurētum
• laureus
• lauricomus
• laurifer
• lauriger
• laurīnus
• lauripotēns

Related terms

• laureātus
• laureola
• laurea

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: laur
• Italo-Romance:
  • Central Italian: lauru, lauro, làvoro
  • Corsican: addoru
  • Italian: alloro
  • Neapolitan: lauro, làvoro
  • Sicilian: addàuru, làvuru
• Padanian:
  • Lombard: laur
  • Piedmontese: làuro, laur
  • ⇒ Venetian: lavranèr, vialoro, doraro
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • >? Franco-Provençal: lôro (Valdôtain)
  • Old French: lor
  • Old Lorrain: loir
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: lor
    • Catalan: llor, llort
  • Old Occitan: laur
    • Occitan: laur (Rouergue)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Portuguese: louro
    • Galician: louro
    • Portuguese: louro, loiro
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: laru, lau, lavru
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: lar
  • → Old Irish:
    • Manx: laurys
    • Scottish Gaelic: labhrais
  • → Proto-Brythonic:
    • Welsh: llawryf
  • →⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *laurubaʀi (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings:

• Learned:
  • → Asturian: lauro
  • → Italian: lauro
  • → Polish: laur
  • → Portuguese: lauro
  • → Sicilian: lauru
  • → Spanish: lauro
• → Esperanto: laŭro
• → Latvian: laurs
• → Lithuanian: laurų
• → Middle Dutch: lauwer
  • → Swedish: laver
    • Swedish: lager
      • → Finnish: laakeri
• → Samogitian: lauros
• → West Slavic:
  • Czech: vavřín
  • Polish: wawrzyn
  • Slovak: vavrín
  • Lower Sorbian: ławrjeńc
  • Upper Sorbian: ławrjenc
  • → Hungarian: babér
  • → Samogitian: babka, bakos
• → East and South Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лаўр (laŭr)
  • Bulgarian: лавър (lavǎr), лавров (lavrov)
  • Bosnian: lovor
  • Croatian: lovor
  • Macedonian: лавор (lavor)
  • Russian: лавр (lavr) (see there for further descendants)
  • Serbo-Croatian: lovor, lovorika
  • Slovene: lovor
  • Ukrainian: лавр (lavr)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 598: “l'alloro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “laurus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 208

Further reading

• “laurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette