FromLatinCyprus, fromAncient GreekΚύπρος(Kúpros).

• (Received Pronunciation,US)IPA^(key):/ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

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• Homophone:cypress

Cyprus

2. An island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia. Official name:Republic of Cyprus. Capital:Nicosia.
3. Asuburban area ofBeckton, borough ofNewham,Greater London,England, named after the Mediterranean island(OS grid ref TQ4380).

• Cyprus cat
• Cyprus cedar
• Cyprus turpentine
• Northern Cyprus

• Cypriot
• CYP

Cyprus (uncountable)

1. (historical,textiles) A thin,translucent, usually blackfabric, a kind ofcrape.
   • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume I, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page131:

     Seated in an arm-chair, covered with cloth of gold, was the Queen; her robe was of black velvet, edged with the richest sable; and the diadem at the back of her head confined the folds of a long blackCyprus veil.

• cypres(obsolete)
• cypress

Ultimately fromLatinCyprus, fromAncient GreekΚύπρος(Kúpros).Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsi.prʏs/

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• Hyphenation:Cy‧prus

Cyprus n (adjectiveCypriotisch,demonymCyprioot morCypriotische f)

1. Cyprus (an island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia)

• → Indonesian:Siprus

FromAncient GreekΚύπρος(Kúpros).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈky.prus/,[ˈkʏprʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʃi.prus/,[ˈt͡ʃiːprus]

Cyprus f sg (genitiveCyprī);second declension

1. Cyprus (an island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia)

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Cyprus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cyprus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Cyprus

1. Cyprus (an island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia).

• IPA^(key):[ˈt͡siprus]

Cyprus m inan (relational adjectivecyperský,demonymCyperčan,femaledemonymCyperčanka)

1. Cyprus (an island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia)

• “Cyprus”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

FromEnglishCyprus.

Cyprus m

1. Cyprus (an island and country in theMediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part ofSoutheast Europe but geographically part ofWestern Asia)

• De Cyprus(“South Cyprus”)
• Gogledd Cyprus(“North Cyprus”)