cupressum
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;
acc. sg.gen. 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;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples

Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...congressu Capaneus gauisus iniquo librabat magna uenturam mole cupressum. ante tamen, 'quid femineis ululatibus,' inquit, 'terrificas, moriture, uiros..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...monstrator aratri, et teneram ab radice ferens, Siluane, cupressum: dique deaeque omnes, studium quibus arua tueri, quique nouas..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...nunc non erat his locus. Et fortasse cupressum scis simulare; quid hoc, si fractis enatat exspes nauibus, aere..."
