Translingual

Proper noun

Cedrus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pinaceae – the one to five species of true cedar, native to the mountains around the Mediterranean and to the western Himalayas.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Pinaceae - family

Hyponyms

• For species see Cedrus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• Austrocedrus
• Calocedrus
• Libocedrus
• Papuacedrus

Latin

cedrus

Noun

cedrus f ‎(genitive cedrī); second declension

1. the juniper tree, Juniperus oxycedrus
2. (by extension) cedar-oil, used to anoint books to preserve them from damage by moth or decay

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (cedar-oil): cedrium

Related terms

• cedrelatē
• cedria
• cedrinus
• cedris
• cedrium

Descendants

References

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