laurus

Related to Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”), whence also the given name Δάφνη (Dáphnē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈɫau̯.rʊs]

laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension

1. laurel tree
2. (metonymically) laurels; a crown of laurel

Second declension.

• (laurel tree): laurea
• (crown of laurel): laurea

• laureātus
• laureola
• laurea

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: laur
• Italian: alloro
• Old French: lor
• Old Occitan: *laur
  • Catalan: llor
• Old Portuguese: louro
  • Galician: louro
  • Portuguese: louro, loiro
• Sicilian: addàuru
• → Albanian: lar
• → Italian: lauro
• → Polish: laur
• → Portuguese: lauro
• → Russian: лавр (lavr)
• → Sicilian: làuru
• → Spanish: lauro
• → Swedish: lager
  • → Finnish: laakeri
• → Ukrainian: лавр (lavr)
• → Welsh: llawryf
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *laurarius (suffixed)
  • ⇒ Old French: lorier, lorrer
    • French: laurier
      • → Dutch: laurier
        • Afrikaans: lourier
      • → West Flemish: laurier
    • Walloon: lawri
    • → Middle English: laurer, lorrer
      • English: laurel
      • Scots: laurie
  • ⇒ Old Occitan: laurier
    • Catalan: llorer
    • → Spanish: laurel
  • ⇒ Old Portuguese: loureiro
    • Galician: loureiro
    • Portuguese: loureiro
      • → English: loureiro
• → Germanic compounds with "berry"
  • Danish: laurbær
  • Faroese: lavrber
  • North Frisian: loorbeer
  • Norwegian: laurbær
  • Old High German: lōrberi
    • Middle High German: lōrber, lōrbere
      • German: Lorbeer
      • Luxembourgish: Lorber
      • → Estonian: loorber

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