myrtus

• murtus, myrta

From Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmyr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmir.t̪us]

myrtus f (genitive myrtī); second declension

1. myrtle (tree)
   • 23 B.C.E., 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

Second-declension noun.

• myrtāceus
• myrtātum
• myrtētum
• myrteus
• myrtidanum

• myrteolus
• myrtinus
• myrtītēs
• myrtum

• “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
• myrtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “myrtus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers