cupressu
Dictionary entries
- 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;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...mihi quolibet columna est, sed uiua generata de cupressu: quae nec saecula centiens peracta nec longae cariem timet..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...nigro squalentia pumice saxa gaudent ferali circum tumulata cupressu. Has inter sedes Ditis pater extulit ora bustorum flammis..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...nutanti platano lentaque sorore flammati Phaethontis et aerea cupressu. haec circum sedes late contexta locavit, vestibulum ut molli..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...intermittuntque laborem. Vallis erat piceis et acuta densa cupressu, nomine Gargaphie succinctae sacra Dianae, cuius in extremo..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...paenitet tarditatis — proxime vidi. Modicus collis assurgit, antiqua cupressu nemorosus et opacus. Hunc subter exit fons et exprimitur..."