cedrus

See also: Cedrus and cédrus

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “applied to species of Juniperus and similar trees”). Compare with its possible mutation citrus.

cedrus f (genitive cedrī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

Catalan: cedre
Galician: cidreira
Italian: cedro
Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Bokmål: seder
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: seder
Old French: cedre
- French: cèdre (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: cedre, ceder, cedir, cedyr, cedur, cedr, seder, sedur, cydyr, cidre
  - English: cedar
  - Scots: ceder, cedir, cedar
- Norman: cèdre
→ Old Polish: cedr (learned)
- Polish: cedr, ceder, cedrus, cedron (Middle Polish)
- Silesian: ceder
Portuguese: cedro
Romanian: cedru
→ Russian: кедр (kedr)
Spanish: cedro
→ Proto-West Germanic: *cedru (see there for further descendants)
Translingual: Cedrus

“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
“cedrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.