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myrtle (n.)
c. 1400, from Old French
mirtile
, from Medieval Latin
myrtillus
, diminutive of Latin
myrtus
"myrtle tree," from Greek
myrtos
"the myrtle, a sprig of myrtle," from same Semitic source as Greek
myrrha
(see
myrrh
).
