Translingual

Proper noun

Myrtus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae – possibly only the single species true myrtle, has included other species, most now in other genera in the same family.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Myrtales - order; Myrtaceae - family; Myrtoideae - subfamily; Myrteae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Myrtus communis - sole accepted species name; for discussion see Myrtus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . For other species see Myrtus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies .

Derived terms

• Amomyrtella
• Amomyrtus
• Archirhodomyrtus
• Austromyrtus
• Lithomyrtus
• Lophomyrtus
• Meteoromyrtus
• Myrtastrum
• Myrtella
• Myrteola
• Neomyrtus
• Octamyrtus
• Rhodomyrtus
• Uromyrtus

Latin

Alternative forms

• murtus

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.

Derived terms

• myrtāceus
• myrtātum
• myrtētum
• myrteus
• myrtidanum

Related terms

• myrteolus
• myrtinus
• myrtītēs
• myrtum

Descendants

• French: myrte
• Italian: mirto
• Portuguese: mirto, mirta
• Romanian: mirt

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “myrtus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• myrtus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers