Cupressus, huius cupressi, vel Cupressus, in quarta declinatione, f. g. Arbor. A cypresse tree.Cupressus acuta.Ouid.Atra cupressus.Virg.The sorowful Cypresse tree.Feralis cupressus.Ouid.Funebres cupresli. Hora. Cypresse which in old time was vsed to be set at mens doores, in token that one was deade out of the house.Tectura tumulos cupressus. Claud. Tenera cupressus.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cūpressus, i, and less freq. ūs, f.(m. acc. plur. rectosque cupressos, Enn. ap. Gell. 13, 20, 13, and ap. Non. p. 195; rare collat. form cpărissus, i, f., Verg. A. 3, 680; cf. infra B.; and in late Lat. cpres-sus, i, f., Vulg. Ecclus. 24, 17; Isid. Orig. 17, 7, 34), = kupa/rissos, the cypress, an evergreen tree sacred to Pluto and used at funerals: Cupressus sempervirens, Linn.— Sing. nom., Hor. C. 4, 6, 10; Plin. 16, 33, 60, 142; 16, 40, 78, 212; Ov. M. 10, 106.—Gen. cupressi, Cato, R. R. 48, 1; 151, 1 sq.; Plin. 17, 12, 18, 89; 24, 5, 10, 15; Val. Fl. 1, 774; Ser. Samm. 598; 691 al.; cupressus, Plin. 14, 16, 19, 112; App. M. 6, 30, p. 186; 8, 18, p. 209.—Dat. cupresso, Ser. Samm. 688.—Abl. cupresso, Verg. A. 3, 64; Hor. A. P. 332; Cels. 4, 9; 6, 18, 6; Plin. 22, 23, 47, 97; 24, 6, 22, 32; Vitr. 1, 2, 8; 2, 9, 12; Mart. 6, 73, 7; Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 2: cupressu, Cat. 64, 291; Ov. M. 3, 155; id. Tr. 3, 13, 21; Vitr. 2, 9, 13; Col. 4, 26, 1; Mart. 6, 49, 4; 6, 49, 11; Petr. 120; Spart. Sev. 22, 4.—Plur. nom. cupressi, Verg. E. 1, 26; Hor. C. 1, 9, 11: cupressus, Petr. 131; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 370.—Acc. cupressos, Enn. ap. Gell. 13, 20, 13; Cato, R. R. 28, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 15, 1, 26; Verg. G. 2, 443; id. A. 6, 216; Hor. C. 2, 14, 23; id. Epod. 5, 18: cupressus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 393.—B. Personified: Cpărissus, i, m., a youth changed to a cypress, Ov M. 10, 121 sq.; cf. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 20; id. A. 3, 64.—II.Meton., a box of cypress wood; abl. cupresso, Hor. A. P. 332.