cypro
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cyprus, cypra, cyprum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Archaic
good; (Sabine for bonus);
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →cyprus, cypri:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
henna-tree, Egyptian privet Lawsonia inermis; tree which yielded cyprium (L+S);
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →cypros, cypri:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
henna-tree, Egyptian privet Lawsonia inermis; tree which yielded cyprium (L+S);
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →cyprum, cypri:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
Cyprian copper;; henna oil;
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →Cyprus, Cypri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Near East
Cyprus; (island);
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →Cypros, Cypri:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Near East
Cyprus; (island);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...conposita in mortem iacuit fauitque procellis. prima ratem Cypros spumantibus accipit undis; inde tenens pelagus, sed iam moderatior..." Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...calere mero? Cum te, Flacce, mihi reddet Cythereia Cypros, luxuriae fiet tam bona causa meae. Quanta..."- L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...rapinas, tantum Catilinarum. 6. M. Catonem si a Cypro et hereditatis regiae dispensatione redeuntem mare deuorasset..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mihi multa vetustas scire dedit) referam tota notissima Cypro facta, quibus flecti facile et mitescere possis. 'Viderat..." - P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tamquam sensura, reponit. 'Festa dies Veneris tota celeberrima Cypro venerat, et pandis inductae cornibus aurum conciderant ictae nivea..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...reuocaturum neque exercitum reducturum, nisi sibi et tota Cypro et Pelusio agroque, qui circa Pelusiacum ostium Nili esset..."
