κύκνος

See also: Κύκνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *ḱewk- (“white”), with cognates including Sanskrit शोचति (śócati, “to shine, suffer”) and शुक्र (śukrá, “bright, white”),[1] and possibly Old Norse Hǿnir (“god associated with swans and storks”). Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *olbǫdь < Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós, Tatar аккош (aqkoş) (ак (aq) + кош (qoş)). Could also be onomatopoeic from the sound of the swan's call (compare Russian кы-кы (ky-ky, “cry of a swan”)).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κύκνος • (kúknos) m (genitive κύκνου); second declension

  1. swan
  2. type of ship

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́κνος; τοῦ κῠ́κνου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κῠ́κνος
ho kŭ́knos 		τὼ κῠ́κνω
tṑ kŭ́knō 		οἱ κῠ́κνοι
hoi kŭ́knoi
Genitive τοῦ κῠ́κνου
toû kŭ́knou 		τοῖν κῠ́κνοιν
toîn kŭ́knoin 		τῶν κῠ́κνων
tôn kŭ́knōn
Dative τῷ κῠ́κνῳ
tōî kŭ́knōi 		τοῖν κῠ́κνοιν
toîn kŭ́knoin 		τοῖς κῠ́κνοις
toîs kŭ́knois
Accusative τὸν κῠ́κνον
tòn kŭ́knon 		τὼ κῠ́κνω
tṑ kŭ́knō 		τοὺς κῠ́κνους
toùs kŭ́knous
Vocative κῠ́κνε
kŭ́kne 		κῠ́κνω
kŭ́knō 		κῠ́κνοι
kŭ́knoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Latin: cycnus
  • ⇒ Latin: cygnus
  • → Arabic: قُقْنُس (quqnus), قُقْنُوس (quqnūs)
  • ⇒ Classical Syriac: ܩܘܩܢܘܣ (qūqnōs), ܩܘܩܢܣ (/⁠qwqns⁠/), ܩܝܩܝܢܘܣ (/⁠qyqynws⁠/)
  • → Old Armenian: կիկնոս (kiknos), կիւկնոս (kiwknos)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κύκνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 799

Further reading

  • “κύκνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κύκνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κύκνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κύκνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κύκνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • κύκνος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).

Noun

κύκνος • (kýknos) m (plural κύκνοι)

  1. (ornithology) swan, Cygnus

Declension

Declension of κύκνος
singular plural
nominative κύκνος (kýknos) κύκνοι (kýknoi)
genitive κύκνου (kýknou) κύκνων (kýknon)
accusative κύκνο (kýkno) κύκνους (kýknous)
vocative κύκνε (kýkne) κύκνοι (kýknoi)

Derived terms

Further reading

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