cedrus

See also: Cedrus and cédrus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “applied to species of Juniperus and similar trees”). Compare with its possible mutation citrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.drʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.d̪rus]

Noun

cedrus f (genitive cedrī); second declension

1. a juniper tree (Juniperus oxycedrus)
2. (by extension) cedar-oil, used to anoint books to preserve them from damage by moth or decay

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cedrus	cedrī
genitive	cedrī	cedrōrum
dative	cedrō	cedrīs
accusative	cedrum	cedrōs
ablative	cedrō	cedrīs
vocative	cedre	cedrī

Synonyms

• (cedar-oil): cedrium

Related terms

• cedrelatē
• cedria
• cedrinus
• cedris
• cedrium

Descendants

• Catalan: cedre
• Galician: cidreira
• Italian: cedro
• Norwegian:
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: seder
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: seder
• Old French: cedre
  • French: cèdre (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: cedre, ceder, cedir, cedyr, cedur, cedr, seder, sedur, cydyr, cidre
    • English: cedar
    • Scots: ceder, cedir, cedar
  • Norman: cèdre
• → Old Polish: cedr (learned)
  • Polish: cedr, ceder, cedrus, cedron (Middle Polish)
  • Silesian: ceder
• Portuguese: cedro
• Romanian: cedru
• → Russian: кедр (kedr)
• Spanish: cedro
• → Proto-West Germanic: *cedru (see there for further descendants)
• Translingual: Cedrus

References

• “cedrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cedrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cedrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.