cycnus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cygnus
• cignus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈky.knus/, [ˈkʏknʊs̠]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkyk.nus/, [ˈkʏknʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃik.nus/, [ˈt͡ʃiknus]

Noun

cycnus m (genitive cycnī); second declension

1. A swan; a bird noted for its singing and sacred to Apollo.

   Synonym: olor

2. (figuratively) A poet, especially one who sings.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cycnus	cycnī
genitive	cycnī	cycnōrum
dative	cycnō	cycnīs
accusative	cycnum	cycnōs
ablative	cycnō	cycnīs
vocative	cycne	cycnī

Derived terms

• cycneus

Descendants

(Some come from the variant form cygnus.)

• → Catalan: cigne
• → Ido: cigno
• → Esperanto: cigno
• Friulian: cign
• Old Italian: cécino, cécero
• → Italian: cigno
• >? Old Occitan: cinhe, cisne
• Piedmontese: cign
• Sardinian: chíghinu
• → Sicilian: cignu, cinnu
• Venetan: siézano
• Old French: cisne, cinne, cigne, cine
  • → Asturian: cisne
  • → English: cygnet
  • → Galician: cisne
  • → Portuguese: cisne
  • → Spanish: cisne
    • → Sardinian: sísini, císini
• → French: cygne (semi-learned)

References

• “cycnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cycnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cycnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cycnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cycnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cycnus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray