cupressus

See also: Cupressus

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈpres.sus/, [kʊˈprɛs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈpres.sus/, [kuˈprɛsːus]

Noun

cupressus f (genitive cupressī); second declension
cupressus f (genitive cupressūs); fourth declension
cupressus m (genitive cupressī); second 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cupressus	cupressī
Genitive	cupressī	cupressōrum
Dative	cupressō	cupressīs
Accusative	cupressum	cupressōs
Ablative	cupressō	cupressīs
Vocative	cupresse	cupressī

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

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