laurus

See also: Laurus

Latin

From Old Latin dacrus. Related to Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”), whence also the given name Δάφνη (Dáphnē). Possibly related to Latin lacrima, dacrima and Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru), referring to the shape of flowers, although this is uncertain.

laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension

Balkan Romance:
- Megleno-Romanian: laur
- Romanian: laur
Italo-Romance:
- Central Italian: lauru, lauro, làvoro
- Corsican: addoru
- Italian: alloro
- Neapolitan: lauro, làvoro
- Sicilian: aḍḍauru, lauru
Padanian:
- Lombard: laur
- Piedmontese: làuro, laur
- ⇒ Venetan: lavranèr, vialoro, doraro
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- >? Franco-Provençal: lôro (Valdôtain)
- Old French: lor
- Old Lorrain: loir
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: lor
  - Catalan: llor, llort
- Old Occitan: laur
  - Occitan: laur (Rouergue)
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: lloru
- Old Galician-Portuguese: louro
  - Galician: louro
  - Portuguese: louro, loiro
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: laru, lau, lavru
→ Albanian: lar
→ Asturian: lauro (learned)
→ Esperanto: laŭro
→ Italian: lauro (learned)
→ Polish: laur (learned)
→ Portuguese: lauro (learned)
→ Old Irish:
- Manx: laurys
- Scottish Gaelic: labhrais
→? Proto-Brythonic: *llọrɨβ̃
- Welsh: llawryf
→ Proto-West Germanic: *laur (see there for further descendants)
→ Sicilian: lauru (learned)
→ Spanish: lauro (learned)

Unsorted borrowings:

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 598: “l'alloro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “laurus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 208