cycnus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

(Some come from the variant form cygnus.)

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
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