myrtus

See also: Myrtus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • murtus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root meaning bitter. Compare Arabic مُرّ‎ (murr, “bitter”), Hebrew מֹר‎ (mor, “bitterness, acrimony”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.tus/, [ˈmʏr.tʊs]

Noun

myrtus f (genitive myrtī); second declension

  1. myrtle (tree)
    • 23 BCE, 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

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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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