laurel

laurel

See also: Laurel

English

Laurus nobilis

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɹ.əl/, /ˈlɔːɹ.əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɹ.əl/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Noun

laurel (countable and uncountable, plural laurels)

1. Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, page 265-6:

     Now large tracts of land are given over to the cultivation of the camphor laurel.

2. A crown of laurel.
3. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.

   to win laurels; to crown with laurels

4. (botany) Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
5. (botany) Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Derived terms

• American laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
• California laurel (Umbellularia californica)
• cherry laurel
• great laurel (Rhododendron maximum)
• ground laurel (Epigaea repens)
• Laurel County
• laurel water
• laurel wreath
• mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• Mount Laurel
• New Zealand laurel
• Oregon laurel (Umbellularia californica)
• Portugal laurel (Prunus lusitanica)
• rest on one's laurels
• rose laurel (Nerium oleander)
• sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolia)
• spotted laurel (Aucuba japonica)
• spurge laurel (Daphne laureola)
• West Indian laurel

 

Translations

Laurus nobilis

Arabic: غَار‎ m (ḡār) Egyptian Arabic: لاوري‎ m (lauri) Armenian: դափնի (hy) (dapʿni) Belarusian: лаўр m (laŭr) Bulgarian: лавър m (lavǎr) Catalan: llorer (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 月桂 (zh) (yuèguì) Coptic: ⲇⲁⲃⲛⲏⲥ (dabnēs) Czech: vavřín (cs) m Danish: laurbær n or c Dutch: laurier (nl) m Esperanto: laŭro Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: lavrberjatræ n, lavrber n Finnish: laakeri (fi) French: laurier (fr) m Friulian: orâr m Galician: loureiro (gl) m, gamallo m Georgian: დაფნა (dapna) German: Lorbeer (de) m Greek: δάφνη (el) f (dáfni) Ancient: δάφνη f (dáphnē) Hebrew: דַּפְנָה‎ (he) f (dafná), עָר‎ (he) m ('ar) Hungarian: babér (hu) Italian: alloro (it) m Japanese: 月桂 (ja) (げっけい, gekkei) Kazakh: дәмжапырақ (dämjapyraq) Latin: laurus f, laurea f Lombard: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: Lorber m Macedonian: ла́вор m (lávor) Norwegian: laurbær n Occitan: please add this translation if you can Old English: lāwerbēam m Piedmontese: lauro m Polish: wawrzyn (pl) m, laur (pl) m Portuguese: louro (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: laur (ro) m, dafin (ro) m Russian: лавр (ru) m (lavr) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ло̏во̄р m Roman: lȍvōr (sh) m Slovak: vavrín (sk) m Slovene: lôvor (sl) m Spanish: laurel (es) m Swahili: mbei class 3 Swedish: lager (sv) Turkish: defne (tr) Ukrainian: лавр m (lavr) Walloon: lawri (wa) m Welsh: llawryf m, llawryfoedd pl

crown of laurel

Armenian: դափնեպսակ (hy) (dapʿnepsak) Bulgarian: лавров венец m (lavrov venec) Catalan: corona de llorer (ca) Danish: laurbærkrans c Dutch: laurierkroon m or f, lauwerkrans (nl) m Faroese: lavrberjakransur m Finnish: laakeriseppele (fi) French: couronne de laurier f, couronne de lauriers f German: Lorbeerkranz (de) m Greek: κότινος (el) m (kótinos) Hungarian: babérkoszorú (hu) Macedonian: ла́воров ве́нец m (lávorov vénec), ла́вров ве́нец m (lávrov vénec) Norwegian: laurbærkrans m Polish: wawrzyn (pl) m, laur (pl) m Portuguese: coroa de louros f, louros (pt) m pl Romanian: coroană de lauri Russian: ла́вровый вено́к m (lávrovyj venók) Spanish: corona de laurel f Swahili: taji la mbei class 5 Swedish: lagerkrans (sv) Ukrainian: лавро́вий віно́к m (lavróvyj vinók), лавро́вий віне́ць m (lavróvyj vinécʹ) Walloon: lawris (wa) m pl

honor, distinction

Armenian: դափնի (hy) (dapʿni) Bulgarian: почести (bg) f pl (počesti) Finnish: laakerit (fi) pl French: lauriers (fr) m pl Greek: δάφνες (el) f pl (dáfnes) Hungarian: babérkoszorú (hu) Macedonian: по́чести f pl (póčesti) Polish: wawrzyn (pl) m, laur (pl) m Portuguese: láurea f Russian: ла́вры m pl (lávry) Ukrainian: ла́ври m pl (lávry) Walloon: lawris (wa) m pl

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Italian: (please verify) allori (it) m pl

Verb

laurel (third-person singular simple present laurels, present participle laureling or laurelling, simple past and past participle laureled or laurelled)

1. (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
   • 2014, Cayden Carrico, A Nocturne of Echoes, →ISBN, page 32:

     Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.

2. (transitive) To enwreathe.
   • 2013, John Hornor Jacobs, The Twelve-Fingered Boy, →ISBN, page 161:

     It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.

3. (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.
   • 1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross, page 149:

     In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.

   • 1927, John Mackinnon Robertson, Modern humanists reconsidered, page 29:

     Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.

   • 2010, Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party, →ISBN:

     He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.

   • 2017, George William Rutler, Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive, →ISBN:

     In 1973, the modern papist missionary was laurelled an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the institution founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.

See also

• Laurel and Hardy

References

• laurel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allure

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan laurier, which was inherited from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, which was derived from Latin laurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lauˈɾel/ [lau̯ˈɾel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: lau‧rel

Noun

laurel m (plural laureles)

1. (botany) laurel

Derived terms

• dormirse en los laureles
• laurel alejandrino
• laurel cerezo
• laurel real
• laurel rosa

Related terms

• laurear

Further reading

• “laurel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014