cypress

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

cedar

cypress tree

tree

🌳

cypres

Cupressaceae

Traducións

cipresso

cyprès

ciprés

Zypresse

cipreste

κυπαρίσσι

xiprer

cipres

cupressus

servi

Cupressus

cyparissus

cypres

chamaecyparis

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: cipres

Relativo a francés: cyprès

Relativo a hebreo: גֹּפֶר

In summary

From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus; 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).