laurus

See also: Laurus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯rʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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

• laurētum
• laureus
• lauricomus
• laurifer

• lauriger
• laurīnus
• lauripotēns

Related terms

• laureātus
• laureola
• laurea

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: laur
• Italian: alloro
• Old French: lor
• Old Occitan: [Term?], *laur
  • Catalan: llor
• Old Galician-Portuguese: louro
  • Galician: louro
  • Portuguese: louro, loiro
• Sicilian: aḍḍauru
• → Albanian: lar
• → Italian: lauro
• → Polish: laur
• → Portuguese: lauro
• → Russian: лавр (lavr)
• → Sicilian: lauru
• → Spanish: lauro
• → Swedish: lager
  • → Finnish: laakeri
• → Ukrainian: лавр (lavr)
• → Welsh: llawryf
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *laurarius (suffixed)
  • ⇒ Old French: lorier, lorrer
    • French: laurier
      • Haitian Creole: lorye
      • → Dutch: laurier
        • Afrikaans: lourier
      • → West Flemish: laurier
      • → Wolof: lóriye
    • Walloon: lawri
    • → Middle English: laurer, laurear, laurere, lawrer, laurier, lorer, lorere, lorier, lorrer, lorrere, loryere, loryȝer; laureal, laureall, laurealle, laurel, laurell, laureol, laureole, laurial, laurialle, lauryel, lawriall, lorel, lorell, lorelle, loryel
      • English: laurel
      • Scots: laurie
  • ⇒ Old Occitan: laurier
    • Catalan: llorer
    • → Spanish: laurel
  • ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: loureiro
    • Galician: loureiro
    • Portuguese: loureiro
      • → English: loureiro
• → Germanic compounds with "berry"
  • Danish: laurbær
  • Faroese: lavrber
  • North Frisian: loorbeer
  • Norwegian: laurbær
  • Old High German: lōrberi
    • Middle High German: lōrber, lōrbere
      • German: Lorbeer
      • Luxembourgish: Lorber
      • → Estonian: loorber

References

• “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.