Translingual

Cupressus macrocarpa

Proper noun

Cupressus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cupressaceae – the cypresses.

Usage notes

• The genus had long included the New World cypresses now often placed in Callitropsis.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Tracheophyta - phylum; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Cupressaceae - family; Cupressoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cupressus sempervirens (Mediterranean cypress) - type species; Cupressus atlantica (Moroccan cypress); Cupressus austrotibetica (South Tibet cypress); Cupressus cashmeriana (Bhutan cypress); Cupressus chengiana, Cheng's cypress); Cupressus duclouxiana (Yunnan cypress); Cupressus dupreziana (Saharan cypress); Cupressus funebris (weeping cypress); Cupressus gigantea (Tibetan cypress); Cupressus tonkinensis (Tonkin cypress); Cupressus torulosa (Himalayan cypress); Cupressus vietnamensis (Vietnamese cypress) - species (Old World); Cupressus abramsiana (Callitropsis abramsiana, Santa Cruz cypress); Cupressus arizonica (Callitropsis arizonica, Arizona cypress); Cupressus bakeri (Callitropsis bakeri, Modoc cypress); Cupressus benthamii (Callitropsis benthamii, Bentham's cypress); Cupressus forbesii (Callitropsis forbesii, Tecate cypress); Cupressus glabra (Callitropsis glabra, smooth Arizona cypress); Cupressus goveniana (Callitropsis goveniana, Gowen cypress); Cupressus guadalupensis (Callitropsis guadalupensis, Guadalupe cypress); Cupressus lusitanica (Callitropsis lusitanica, Mexican cypress); Cupressus macnabiana (Callitropsis macnabiana, Macnab cypress); Cupressus macrocarpa (Callitropsis macrocarpa, Monterey cypress); Cupressus montana (Callitropsis montana, San Pedro Martir cypress); Cupressus nevadensis (Callitropsis nevadensis, Piute cypress); Cupressus nootkatensis, Nootka cypress); Cupressus pygmaea (Callitropsis pygmaea, Mendocino cypress); Cupressus revealiana (El Rincon cypress); Cupressus sargentii (Callitropsis sargentii, Sargent cypress); Cupressus stephensonii (Callitropsis stephensonii, Cuyamaca cypress) - New World species

Latin

Noun

cupressus f ‎(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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• cupressētum
• cupresseus
• cupressifer

Related terms

• cupressinus / cupressīnus

Descendants

• English: cypress
• French: cyprès
• Italian: cipresso
• Norman: cyprès (Jersey)

References

• cupressus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cupressus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cupressus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016