cypress

cypress

See also: Cypress and cy pres

English

Cypress

Alternative forms

• cypres (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: Cyprus

Etymology 1

From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר‎ (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (relating to aromatic pitch).

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

1. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis.

Derived terms

• African cypress (Widdringtonia spp.)
• Alaska cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)
• Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica)
• Baker cypress (Cupressus bakeri)
• bald cypress (Taxodium distichum and T. mucronatum)
• Bhutan cypress (Cupressus torulosa)
• black cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• Chinese cypress (Cupressus duclouxiana)
• cypress brake
• cypress canker (Seiridium spp.)
• cypress dome
• cypress gilia (Gilia rubra)
• cypress grass (Cyperus diandrus)
• cypress knee
• cypress koromiko (Veronica cupressoides)
• cypress moss (Hypnum cupressiforme and Lycopodium alpinum)
• cypress pine (Callitris spp.)
• cypress sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)
• cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissia)
• cypress trout
• cypress vine
• deciduous cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• dwarf cypress (Lycopodium alpinum)
• false cypress (Chamaecyparis spp.)
• field cypress (Ajuga chamaepitys)
• Goa cyoress (Cupressus lusitanica)
• golden cypress (Cupressus spp.)
• Gowen cypress (Cupressus goveniana)
• ground cypress (Santolina chamaecyparissus)
• Guadalupe cypress (Cupressus guadalupensis)
• heath cypress (Lycopodium alpinum etc.)
• Himalayan cypress (Cupressus torulosa)
• hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)
• Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
• Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis spp.)
• Lambert's cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)
• Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)
• Leyland cypress (Cupressus × leylandii)
• Louisiana cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• MacNab cypress
• Macnab cypress (Cupressus macnabiana)
• marsh cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
• Mexican cyoress (Cupressus lusitanica)
• mock cypress (Kochia scoparia)
• Modoc cypress (Cupressus bakeri)
• Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)
• Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)
• Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)
• Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides)
• pecky cypress
• Peruvian cypress
• pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens)
• Portuguese cyoress (Cupressus lusitanica)
• pygmy cypress (Cupressus goveniana pigmaea or Cupressus pigmaea)
• red cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• Russian cypress (Microbiota decussata)
• Saharan cypress (Cupressus dupreziana
• Santa Cruz cypress (Cupressus abramsiana or Cupressus goveniana abramsiana)
• Sargent cypress (Cupressus sargentii)
• sawara cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera)
• Shasta cypress (Cupressus macnabiana)
• Siskiyou cypress (Cupressus bakeri)
• Sitka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)
• southern cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• standing cypress (Gilia rubra)
• summer cypress (Kochia scoparia)
• swamp cypress (Taxodium distichum), T. mucronatum, and Chamaecyparis thyoides)
• tree cypress (Gilia rubra)
• weeping cypress (Cupressus penebris)
• white cypress (Taxodium distichum and Callitris glauca)
• yellow cypress (Taxodium distichum and Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)

 

Translations

an evergreen coniferous tree

Albanian: selvi (sq) f, qiparis (sq) m Akkadian: 𒋗𒌫𒎙 (šu-ur₂-min₃ /šurmēnu/), 𒇷 (burāšu) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper) Arabic: سَرْوَة‎ f (sarwa) (one), سَرْو‎ m (sarw) (many or in general) Egyptian Arabic: سرو‎ m (sarw) (collective), سروة‎ f (sarwa) (singulative) Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic: שׁוּרְבִּינָא‎ (šurbinnā), בְּרֹותָא‎ (bərōṯā), בְּרָָתָא‎‎ (bərāṯā) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper) Classical Syriac: ܫܘܽܪܒܻܝܢܳܐ‎ (šurbinnā), ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ‎ (šarwēnā), ܒܪܽܘܬܳܐ‎ (bərōṯā) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper) Armenian: նոճի (hy) (noči), կիպարիս (hy) (kiparis) Bulgarian: кипари́с (bg) m (kiparís), се́лвия f (sélvija) (obsolete) Catalan: xiprer (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 柏樹／柏树 (zh) (bǎishù, bóshù) Crimean Tatar: servi, selbi Czech: cypřiš (cs) m Dutch: cipres (nl) m Esperanto: cipreso Estonian: küpress Finnish: sypressi (fi) French: cyprès (fr) m Friulian: please add this translation if you can German: Zypresse (de) f Greek: κυπαρίσσι (el) n (kyparíssi) Ancient: κυπάρισσος f (kupárissos) Hawaiian: kupeleko Hebrew: בְּרוֹשׁ‎ (he) m (bərṓš), תְּאַשּׁוּר‎‎ f (təʾaššū́r) Hungarian: ciprus (hu), ciprusfa (hu) Icelandic: kýprusviður (is) m Ido: cipreso (io) Italian: cipresso (it) m Japanese: サイプレス (saipuresu), 糸杉 (いとすぎ, itosugi) Kazakh: сауырағаш (sauyrağaş) Kikuyu: mũkarakaba class 3 Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سەوڵ‎ (sewll) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Latin: cupressus Latvian: ciprese m Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: kiparisas m Lombard: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: чемпрес (čempres) Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᠯᠠᠰᡠᠨ (mailasun) Maori: kaiperi Middle English: cipres Nahuatl: tlatskakuauitl, tlatskan (nah) Norman: cyprès m Norwegian: sypress (no) m Occitan: cipres Persian: سرو‎ (fa) (sarv) Piedmontese: sipress m Polish: cyprys (pl) m Portuguese: cipreste (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: chiparos (ro) m Russian: кипари́с (ru) m (kiparís) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чѐмпрес m, сѐлвија f, сѐвлија f Roman: čèmpres (sh) m, sèlvija f, sèvlija f Slovak: cyprus (sk) m Slovene: cipresa (sl) f Spanish: ciprés (es) m Sumerian: 𒋗𒌫𒈨 (šu-ur₂-me /šurmen/) Swahili: mvinje Swedish: cypress (sv) c Tagalog: sipres (tl) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: سروی‎ (servi), سلوی‎ (selvi) Modern Turkish: servi (tr), selvi (tr) Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎛𐎌𐎗 m (tỉšr) Venetian: please add this translation if you can

Noun

cypress

1. Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”)

References

• cypress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cupressus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chamaecyparis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Middle English

Noun

cypress

1. Alternative form of cipres

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Swedish

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

Declension of cypress
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cypress	cypressen	cypresser	cypresserna
Genitive	cypress	cypressens	cypressers	cypressernas