cycnus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cygnus, cignus === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́κνος (kŭ́knos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkyk.nʊs] (Classical Latin, poetic) IPA(key): [ˈky.knʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃik.nus] === Noun === cycnus m (genitive cycnī); second declension a swan; a bird noted for its singing, and sacred to Apollo Synonym: olor (figuratively) a poet, especially one who sings ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cycneus ==== 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, 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