hyacinthus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos), but ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hy.aˈkɪn.tʰʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.aˈt͡ʃin.tus] === Noun === hyacinthus m (genitive hyacinthī); second declension iris (plant) sapphire ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “hyacinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “hyacinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “hyacinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray