cypress

See also: Cypress and cy pres

English

a Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)

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 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).

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

2. 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.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

     The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream..

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:

     Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

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)
• Chinese swamp cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis)
• Clanwilliam cypress (Widdringtonia wallichii)
• cypress brake
• cypress canker (Seiridium spp.)
• cypress dome
• cypressed
• 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 (Amia calva)
• cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit)
• 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, Lawson 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 cypress (Cupressus lusitanica, Taxodium mucronatum)
• Milanji cypress, Mlanje cypress (Widdringtonia whytei)
• mock cypress, mock-cypress (Kochia scoparia)
• Modoc cypress (Cupressus bakeri)
• Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)
• Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)
• Mulanje cypress (Widdringtonia whytei)
• 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)
• slender cypress pine (Callitris preissii)
• southern cypress pine (Callitris preissii)
• 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

• Akkadian: 𒋗𒌫𒎙 (šu-ur₂-min₃ /⁠šurmēnu⁠/), 𒇷 (burāšu) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper)
• Albanian: selvi (sq) f, qiparis (sq) m
• Arabic: سَرْوَة f (sarwa) (one), سَرْو m (sarw) (many or in general)

  Egyptian Arabic: سرو m (sarw) (collective), سروة f (sarwa) (singulative)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܫܘܽܪܒܻܝܢܳܐ (šurbinnā), ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ (šarwēnā), ܒܪܽܘܬܳܐ (bərōṯā) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper)

  Jewish Aramaic: שׁוּרְבִּינָא (šurbinnā), בְּרֹותָא (bərōṯā), בְּרָָתָא (bərāṯā) (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
• Galician: ciprés (gl) m, alcipreste (gl) m
• 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 (ja) (いとすぎ, itosugi)
• Kazakh: сауырағаш (sauyrağaş)
• Kikuyu: mũkarakaba class 3
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەوڵ (sewll)

  Northern Kurdish: serw (ku) f

• Latin: cupressus
• Latvian: ciprese m
• Ligurian: çipresso m
• Lithuanian: kiparisas m
• Lombard: ciprèss m
• Macedonian: чемпрес (mk) (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: arẓiprës m
• 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)
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: servi (tr), selvi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi)

• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎛𐎌𐎗 m (tỉšr)
• Welsh: cypreswydd f pl
• Xhosa: uthulwane

Etymology 2

Noun

cypress

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

See also

• cy pres

References

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

Middle English

Noun

cypress

1. Alternative form of cipres

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish cypres, from Latin cupressus.

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

Declension of cypress

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cypress	cypress
	definite	cypressen	cypressens
plural	indefinite	cypresser	cypressers
	definite	cypresserna	cypressernas