"Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear."
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Cypress
//ˈsaɪ.pɹəs//
Synonyms for "cypress" (12 found)
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Closest matches (3)
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Related words (6)
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92 translations across 65 languages.
Akkadian
2 entries- 𒇷 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- 𒋗𒌫𒎙 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Albanian
2 entries- qiparis noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- selvi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κυπάρισσος noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Arabic
4 entries- سرو noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- سروة noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- سَرْو noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- سَرْوَة noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Aramaic
4 entries- בְּרָָתָא noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- בְּרֹותָא noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- שׁוּרְבִּינָא noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- ܒܪܽܘܬܳܐ noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Armenian
2 entries- կիպարիս noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- նոճի noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sərv noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кипари́с noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- се́лвия noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Catalan
1 entries- xiprer noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- سەوڵ noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 柏樹 /柏树 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Crimean Tatar
2 entries- selbi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- servi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Czech
1 entries- cypřiš noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Dutch
1 entries- cipres noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Esperanto
1 entries- cipreso noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Estonian
1 entries- küpress noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Faroese
3 entries- syfrisviður noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- sypristræ noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- syprisviður noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Finnish
1 entries- sypressi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
French
1 entries- cyprès noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Galician
2 entries- alcipreste noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- ciprés noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
German
1 entries- Zypresse noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Greek
1 entries- κυπαρίσσι noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kupeleko noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Hebrew
2 entries- בְּרוֹשׁ noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- תְּאַשּׁוּר noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Hungarian
2 entries- ciprus noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- ciprusfa noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Icelandic
1 entries- kýprusviður noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Ido
1 entries- cipreso noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Italian
1 entries- cipresso noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Japanese
2 entries- サイプレス noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- 糸杉 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Kazakh
1 entries- сауырағаш noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũkarakaba noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Latin
1 entries- cupressus noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Latvian
1 entries- ciprese noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Ligurian
1 entries- çipresso noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kiparisas noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Lombard
1 entries- ciprèss noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Macedonian
1 entries- чемпрес noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠮᠠᡳᠯᠠᠰᡠᠨ noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Middle English
1 entries- cipres noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Māori
1 entries- kaiperi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Nahuatl
2 entries- tlatskakuauitl noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- tlatskan noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Norman
1 entries- cyprès noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- serw noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Norwegian
1 entries- sypress noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Occitan
1 entries- cipres noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- سروی noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- سلوی noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Persian
1 entries- سرو noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Piedmontese
1 entries- sipress noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Polish
1 entries- cyprys noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Portuguese
1 entries- cipreste noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Romagnol
1 entries- arẓiprës noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Romanian
1 entries- chiparos noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Russian
1 entries- кипари́с noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sèlvija noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- sèvlija noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- čèmpres noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- сѐвлија noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Slovak
1 entries- cyprus noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Slovene
1 entries- cipresa noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Spanish
1 entries- ciprés noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒋗𒌫𒈨 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Swahili
1 entries- mvinje noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Swedish
1 entries- cypress noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Tagalog
1 entries- sipres noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Turkish
2 entries- selvi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
- servi noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎚𐎛𐎌𐎗 noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Welsh
1 entries- cypreswydd noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Xhosa
1 entries- uthulwane noun (an evergreen coniferous tree)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore.
Source: tatoeba (6943383)
Barren trees are the fir, elder, birch, cypress, beech, ivy, sallow, linden and so on, but most of them afford shade.
Source: tatoeba (7306294)
The main type of tree in this part of the forest is the cypress.
Source: tatoeba (7843017)
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