cupressus

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).

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

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.

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

• cupressētum
• cupresseus
• cupressifer

• cupressinus / cupressīnus

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

cupressūs

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

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016