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• 1 Hungarian
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Pronunciation
  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Declension
    * 1.4.2 Derived terms
  • 1.5 References
  • 1.6 Further reading

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mirtusz

• mirtus (archaic or dialectal), myrtus (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin myrtus (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”). First attested in 1533.[1]

• IPA(key): [ˈmirtus]
• Hyphenation: mir‧tusz
• Rhymes: -us

mirtusz (plural mirtuszok)

1. myrtle (evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus)
   Synonym: (obsolete) irnye
   • 1932, Ferenc Móra, chapter I, in Aranykoporsó [Golden Coffin], Budapest: Magvető, published 1971, page 7:
     A palotával szemben szamár rágcsálta a Juno templomát körülvevő liget mirtuszainak kérgét.
     Opposite the palace, a donkey was gnawing at the bark of the myrtles in the grove surrounding the temple of Juno.

• mirtuszos

• mirtuszág

• mirtuszbokor

• mirtuszfa

• mirtuszolaj

1. ^ mirtusz in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

• mirtusz in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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