cypres
English
Etymology 1
Noun
cypres
- Obsolete spelling of cypress (“tree”).
Etymology 2
Noun
cypres
- Obsolete spelling of cypress (“fabric”).
- 1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III[1]:
- Philemon Holland's Plinie, Bk. XI, ch. xxii: 'The invention of that fine silke, tiffanie, sarcenet, and cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them.'
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish cipræs, via Old French cipres and Latin cupressus from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [syˈpʰʁ̥as], [syˈpʰʁ̥ɑs]
Noun
cypres c (singular definite cypressen, plural indefinite cypresser)
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | cypres | cypressen | cypresser | cypresserne |
| genitive | cypres' | cypressens | cypressers | cypressernes |
References
- “cypres” in Den Danske Ordbog
Middle English
Noun
cypres
- alternative form of cipres
Old Polish
Alternative forms
- cypresz (possible alternative reading)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cupressus. First attested in 1472.
Pronunciation
Noun
cypres m animacy unattested (related adjective cyprysowy)
- (attested in Greater Poland) cypress (an evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis)
- 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2[2], number 101:
- Czypress lignum cipressi
- [Cypresz lignum cipressi]
- c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 27v:
- Cipressus est quedam arbor cuius caput a rotunditate in acumine erigitur czypresz
- [Cipressus est quedam arbor cuius caput a rotunditate in acumine erigitur czypres]
Descendants
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cypres”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- K. Nitsch, editor (1955), “(cyprys) cypresz”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 340
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(cyprys) cypresz”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
- Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “cypres”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk