cipre

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiprə/, /ˈsipər/, /ˈsiːp-/

A back-formation from cipres, interpreted as a plural.

• cypre, cypur

cipre (plural cipres)

2. (rare) A cypress (the tree Cupressus sempervirens)

   Synonym: cipres

• “cī̆pres(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Latin cyprus, from Ancient Greek κῠ́προς (kúpros); compare Cipre (“Cyprus”).

• ciprus, cipur

cipre (uncountable)

2. (rare) henna (the shrub Lawsonia inermis)

• “cipre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.