cyanus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkyː.a.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.a.nus] === Noun === cȳanus m (genitive cȳanī); second declension alternative form of cȳanos (Centaurea cyanus) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== Centaurea cyanus === References === “cyanos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cyanus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cyanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers