laurus

• daurus (laurel)

From Old Latin dacrus. Related to Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”), whence also the given name Δάφνη (Dáphnē). Possibly related to Latin lacrima, dacrima and Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru), referring to the shape of flowers, although this is uncertain.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯rʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈläːu̯rus]

laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension

1. laurel tree
2. (metonymically) laurels; a crown of laurel

Second-declension noun.

• (laurel tree): laurea
• (crown of laurel): laurea

Unsorted borrowings:

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 598: “l'alloro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “laurus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 208

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