myrtus

See also: Myrtus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

myrtus f (genitive myrtī); second declension

  1. myrtle (tree)
    • 23 B.C.E., Horace, Carmina, Book I:4.9-10
      Nunc decet aut uiridi nitidum caput impedire myrto / aut flore, terrae quem ferunt solutae
      Now its right to garland our gleaming heads, with green myrtle or flowers, / whatever the unfrozen earth now bears

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative myrtus myrtī
Genitive myrtī myrtōrum
Dative myrtō myrtīs
Accusative myrtum myrtōs
Ablative myrtō myrtīs
Vocative myrte myrtī

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: murta, murtra
  • French: myrte
  • Galician: mirto
  • → German: Myrte
  • Italian: mirto
  • Polish: mirt
  • Portuguese: mirto, mirta
  • Romanian: mirt
  • Spanish: murta

References
  • “myrtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “myrtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • myrtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “myrtus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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