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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...nigro squalentia pumice saxa gaudent ferali circum tumulata cupressu. Has inter sedes Ditis pater extulit ora bustorum flammis..."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..."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..."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..."