laurus

See also: Laurus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • daurus (laurel)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative laurus laurī
Genitive laurī laurōrum
Dative laurō laurīs
Accusative laurum laurōs
Ablative laurō laurīs
Vocative laure laurī

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: laur
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Central Italian: lauru, lauro, làvoro
    • Corsican: addoru
    • Italian: alloro
    • Neapolitan: lauro, làvoro
    • Sicilian: aḍḍauru, lauru
  • Padanian:
    • Lombard: laur
    • Piedmontese: làuro, laur
    • Venetian: lavranèr, vialoro, doraro
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • >? Franco-Provençal: lôro (Valdôtain)
    • Old French: lor
    • Old Lorrain: loir
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: lor
      • Catalan: llor, llort
    • Old Occitan: laur
      • Occitan: laur (Rouergue)
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • Albanian: lar
    • Old Irish:
      • Manx: laurys
      • Scottish Gaelic: labhrais
    • Proto-Brythonic:
      • Welsh: llawryf
    • Proto-West Germanic: *laurubaʀi (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings:

  • Learned:
  • Esperanto: laŭro
  • Latvian: laurs
  • Lithuanian: laurų
  • Middle Dutch: lauwer
  • Samogitian: lauros
  • → West Slavic:
  • → East and South Slavic:
    • Belarusian: лаўр (laŭr)
    • Bulgarian: лавър (lavǎr), лавров (lavrov)
    • Bosnian: lovor
    • Croatian: lovor
    • Macedonian: лавор (lavor)
    • Russian: лавр (lavr) (see there for further descendants)
    • Serbo-Croatian: lovor, lovorika
    • Slovene: lovor
    • Ukrainian: лавр (lavr)

References

Further reading

  • 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.
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