cedar

See also: Cedar and çedar

English

Cedrus atlantica
Atlas cedar

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English cedre, probably from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

Some suggest that the Middle English word was partially from Old English ċeder, but the gap in attestation between the two words makes this proposal unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.də/
• (US) enPR: sēʹdər, IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dɚ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
• Homophone: seeder

Noun

cedar (countable and uncountable, plural cedars)

2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.

4. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
5. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several not closely related trees.

Derived terms

• Alaska cedar, Alaska yellow cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis)
• Atlantic cedar, Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides)
• Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica)
• Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Barbados bastard cedar
• Barbados cedar (Juniperus barbadensis)
• bastard cedar*
• bay cedar*
• Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana)
• Brazilian cedar (Cedrela fissilis)
• British Columbian cedar
• Burma cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Bussaco cedar
• Californian white cedar
• Canary cedar
• Cape cedar
• cedar apple
• cedar-apple rust
• cedar ball
• Cedar Beach
• cedar beetle (Sandalus niger)
• cedar bird (Bombycilla cedrorum)
• Cedar Bluff
• Cedar Bluffs
• cedar camphor
• cedar chest
• Cedar City
• cedar closet
• Cedar County
• Cedar Crest
• cedared
• cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia)
• Cedar Falls
• cedar fever
• Cedar Fire
• Cedar Forest
• Cedar Fort
• Cedar Glen Lakes
• Cedar Glen West
• cedar green, cedar-green
• Cedar Grove
• Cedar Hill
• Cedar Hill Lakes
• Cedar Hills
• Cedar Island
• Cedar Key
• Cedar Lake
• cedar leaf oil
• cedar-like
• cedar mahogany (Entandrophragma cylindricum)
• cedar marble
• Cedar Mill
• Cedar Mills
• Cedar Mountain
• cedarn
• cedar-nut
• cedar of Goa (Cupressus lusitanica)
• cedar of Lebanon
• cedar oil
• Cedar Park
• Cedar Rapids
• Cedar Revolution
• Cedar River
• cedar robe
• cedar shake
• cedar shingle
• cedar siding
• Cedar Springs
• cedar-swamp
• Cedartown
• Cedar Township
• Cedar Vale
• Cedar Valley
• cedar water
• cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
• cedar-wood, cedarwood
• cedar wood oil
• cedary
• Chilean cedar
• Chinese cedar
• cigar-box cedar
• Clanwilliam cedar (Widdringtonia wallichii)
• coast white cedar
• Cyprus cedar
• deodar cedar
• Dominica cedar
• east African cedar (Juniperus procera)
• eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
• East Indian cedar
• false cedar
• Goa cedar
• ground cedar
• Himalayan cedar
• Honduras cedar
• incense cedar
• Indian cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Jamaica cedar
• Japan cedar, Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
• Lawson's cedar
• Lebanon cedar
• Mexican cedar
• Milanji cedar
• Mlanje cedar
• Moulmein cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Mulanje cedar
• Nootka cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis)
• oil of cedar
• Oregon cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)
• Oregon white cedar
• pencil cedar
• pencil-wood cedar
• Philippine cedar
• Port Orford cedar
• Port Orford white cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)
• prickly cedar
• Queensland red cedar (Toona ciliata)
• red Australian cedar
• red Californian cedar
• red cedar*, redcedar
• Russian cedar
• salt cedar (Tamarix spp.)
• Siberian cedar
• Singapore cedar
• southern red cedar
• southern white cedar
• Spanish cedar
• stink cedar*
• stinking cedar (Torreya taxifolia)
• Texas cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia)
• true cedar
• Turkish cedar
• Virginia red cedar
• water cedar
• West Indian cedar (Cedrela tonduzii)
• white cedar*, whitecedar
• yellow cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis)

 

• See entry for additional derived terms

Related terms

• cedr-
• Cedrela
• cedrelaceous
• cedrelate
• cedrine

Translations

coniferous tree in genus Cedrus

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /⁠erēnu⁠/)
• Albanian: cedra (sq) ?, kedra ?, cedër (sq) m
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bigad

• Arabic: أَرْز m (ʔarz)

  Egyptian Arabic: ارز m (arz) (collective), ارزة f (arza) (singulative)

  Moroccan Arabic: أرز m (arz) (uncountable), أرزة f (arza) (countable)

• Aramaic:

  Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܐܪܙܐ m (/⁠*ʾarzā⁠/)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܪܙܐ m (ʾarzā)

  Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡆𐡀 m (ʾrzʾ)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַרְזָא m (ʾarzā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: ארזא m (/⁠*ʾarzā⁠/)

• Armenian: մայրի (hy) (mayri)

  Old Armenian: մայր (mayr), սարդ (sard) (cedar of Lebanon)

• Azerbaijani: sidr
• Basque: zedro
• Bulgarian: ке́дър (bg) m (kédǎr)
• Catalan: cedre m
• Central Sierra Miwok: čapa·há-
• Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎾ (atsina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西洋杉 (zh) (xīyángshān), 香柏 (xiāngbó)

• Choctaw: chuała
• Crimean Tatar: sedir
• Czech: cedr (cs) m
• Danish: ceder c, cedertræ n
• Dutch: ceder (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ꜥš m)
• Esperanto: cedro (eo)
• Estonian: seeder
• Faroese: sedristræ n, sedrisviður m
• Finnish: setri (fi), setripuu
• French: cèdre (fr) m
• Galician: cidreira (gl) m
• Georgian: კედარი (ka) (ḳedari)
• German: Zeder (de) f
• Greek: κέδρος (el) m (kédros)

  Ancient: κέδρος f (kédros)

• Hakka: [script needed] (hiông-pak-su)
• Hawaiian: ʻaleka
• Hebrew: אֶרֶז (he) m (ʾérez)
• Hindi: देवदार (hi) m (devdār)
• Hungarian: cédrus (hu), cédrusfa (hu)
• Icelandic: sedrus (is) m
• Ido: cedro (io)
• Irish: céadar m
• Italian: cedro (it) m
• Japanese: ヒマラヤ杉 (ヒマラヤスギ, himarayasugi)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Komi-Zyrian: сус (sus)
• Korean: 개잎갈 나무 (gaeipgal namu), 시다 (ko) (sida)
• Kyrgyz: кедр (kedr)
• Ladino: sedro m
• Latin: cedrus f
• Latvian: ciedrs ?
• Lingala: sedre ?
• Lithuanian: kedras ?
• Macedonian: кедар m (kedar)
• Malay: araz
• Manx: cedar ?
• Maori: hīta
• Middle English: cedre
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хуш (mn) (xuš)

• Nanai: колдон (koldon)
• Norman: cèdre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seder (no) m

  Nynorsk: seder m

• Old English: ceder f
• Pennsylvania German: Zeedrebaam m
• Persian: سرو (fa) (sarv), سدر (fa) (sedr)
• Piedmontese: sedro m
• Plautdietsch: Zeedaboom m
• Polish: cedr (pl) m
• Portuguese: cedro m
• Romanian: cedru (ro) m
• Russian: кедр (ru) m (kedr)
• Sanskrit: देवदारु (sa) m or n (devadāru)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏дар m, ке̏дар m

  Roman: cȅdar (sh) m, kȅdar (sh) m

• Slovak: céder (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cedra f

  Upper Sorbian: cedra f

• Southern Altai: мӧш (möš)
• Spanish: cedro (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /⁠eren⁠/)
• Swahili: mwerezi class m-mi
• Swedish: ceder (sv) c
• Tagalog: sedro
• Taos: hų̂nemą
• Tatar: кедр (kedr)
• Tibetan: ཐང་ཁྲག (thang khrag)
• Turkish: sedir (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سدر (sedir)

• Tuvan: пөш (pöş)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎇 m (ảrz)
• Urdu: دیودار ? (devdār)
• Walloon: cede (wa) m
• Welsh: cedrwydd f pl
• Yiddish: צעדרבוים m (tsedrboym), צעדר ? (tsedr)

coniferous tree in family Cupressaceae

• Finnish: sypressikasvi (fi)
• German: Zypressengewächs n

aromatic wood

• Choctaw: chuała
• Czech: cedr (cs) m
• Danish: ceder c, cedertræ n
• Dutch: ceder (nl) m, cederhout (nl) n
• Faroese: sedrisviður m
• Finnish: setri (fi)
• French: cèdre (fr) m
• German: Zeder (de) f, Zedernholz (de) n
• Hungarian: cédrus (hu), cédrusfa (hu)
• Ido: cedro (io)
• Italian: cedro (it) m
• Navajo: dilkʼis
• Norman: cèdre m (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Zeeda m
• Polish: cedr (pl) m
• Portuguese: cedro m
• Russian: кедр (ru) m (kedr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏дровина f, кедровина f

  Roman: cȅdrovina (sh) f, kedrovina f

• Swedish: cederträ (sv) n, ceder (sv) c

Anagrams

• Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cedi, English cede, French céder, Italian cedere, Spanish ceder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡seˈdar/

Verb

cedar (present tense cedas, past tense cedis, future tense cedos, imperative cedez, conditional cedus)

1. (transitive) to cede

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cedar

		present		past		future
infinitive		cedar		cedir		cedor
tense		cedas		cedis		cedos
conditional		cedus
imperative		cedez
adjective active participle		cedanta		cedinta		cedonta
adverbial active participle		cedante		cedinte		cedonte
nominal active participle	singular	cedanto		cedinto		cedonto
	plural	cedanti		cedinti		cedonti
adjective passive participle		cedata		cedita		cedota
adverbial passive participle		cedate		cedite		cedote
nominal passive participle	singular	cedato		cedito		cedoto
	plural	cedati		cediti		cedoti

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.dar/, [ˈkeːd̪är]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.dar/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪är]

Verb

cēdar

1. inflection of cēdō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cȅdar m (Cyrillic spelling це̏дар)

1. cedar (tree)

Declension

Declension of cedar

	singular	plural
nominative	cedar	cedrovi
genitive	cedra	cedrova
dative	cedru	cedrovima
accusative	cedra	cedrove
vocative	cedre	cedrovi
locative	cedru	cedrovima
instrumental	cedrom	cedovrima

Derived terms

• cȅdrovina