cupressi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cupressus, cupressi:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
cypress-tree; cypress oil/wood, cypress-wood casket, spear of cypress-wood;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →cupressus, cupressus:
Feminine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
cypress-tree; cypress oil/wood, cypress-wood casket, spear of cypress-wood;
gen. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...Cato in libro, quem de agricultura conscripsit: "Semen cupressi serito crebrum, ita uti linum seri solet. Eo cribro..." 
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...meminisse paterni. ergo sacra novat. veteris sub nocte cupressi sordidus et multa pallens ferrugine taurus stabat adhuc..."- P
Ecloga I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...caput extulit urbes quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. Meliboeus Et quae tanta fuit Romam tibi causa videndi..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...limes in extrema parte hemicyclio frangitur mutatque faciem: cupressis ambitur et tegitur, densiore umbra opacior nigriorque; interioribus circulis..."