different between spruce vs cedar

English

Etymology

From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spro?os, (US) IPA^(key): /sp?u?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

spruce (countable and uncountable, plural spruces or spruce)

1. Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
2. (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
3. (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.

4. (obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.

Derived terms

• black spruce (Picea mariana)
• blue spruce (Picea pungens)
• dark-bark spruce (Picea jezoensis)
• Engelmann's spruce (Picea engelmannii)
• European spruce (Picea abies)
• Koyama's spruce (Picea koyamae)
• Norway spruce (Picea abies)
• red spruce (Picea rubens)
• Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)

Translations

See also

• Spruce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Picea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Adjective

spruce (comparative sprucer, superlative sprucest)

1. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
   • 1919, William Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 31

     He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.

   • 2012, The Economist, 13th Oct 2012, Plessey returns: Chips with everything

     The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.

Translations

Verb

spruce (third-person singular simple present spruces, present participle sprucing, simple past and past participle spruced)

1. (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
2. (transitive, intransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
3. To tease. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• spruce up

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “spruce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• cusper, recups

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English cedre, from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kédros).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?si?.d?/
• (US) enPR: s??d?r, IPA^(key): /?si.d?/

Noun

cedar (countable and uncountable, plural cedars)

2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.

   • There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.

4. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
5. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cedr-
• Cedrela
• cedrelaceous
• cedrelate
• cedrine

Translations

Anagrams

• Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cedi, English cede, French céder, Italian cedere, Spanish ceder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?se?dar/

Verb

cedar (present tense cedas, past tense cedis, future tense cedos, imperative cedez, conditional cedus)

1. (transitive) to cede

Conjugation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.dar/, [?ke?d?är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.dar/, [?t????d??r]

Verb

c?dar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of c?d?
2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of c?d?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

c?dar m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. cedar (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• c?drovina