different between cypress vs cyprine

English

Alternative forms

• cypres (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.p??s/
• Homophone: Cyprus

Etymology 1

From Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kupárissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; compare Hebrew ??????? (g?p?er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cypress

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

References

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

Swedish

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

English

Adjective

cyprine (comparative more cyprine, superlative most cyprine)

1. (botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.

Anagrams

• pyrenic

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.p?in/

Etymology 1

From Latin cyprium (“copper”) + -ine.

Noun

cyprine f (plural cyprines)

1. (mineralogy) A blue variety of vesuvianite

Hypernyms

• vésuvianite

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ?????? (kúpris), an epithet of Aphrodite, + -ine

Noun

cyprine f (plural cyprines)

1. (sex) vaginal lubrication, vaginal fluid

Further reading

• “cyprine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

cypr?ne

1. vocative singular of cypr?nus