Cyclades

From Ancient Greek Κυκλάδες (Kukládes), plural of Κυκλάς (Kuklás), from κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, ring”).

• IPA^(key): /saɪkleɪdz/, /ˈsɪklədiːz/

Cyclades pl

1. An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Amorgos, Irakleia, Kea, Mykonos Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and others.

Used with the definite article (the Cyclades), unless some islands are specified.

• Cycladic

• Dodecanese
• Sporades pl

• IPA^(key): /si.klad/

Cyclades f pl (plural only)

1. the Cyclades

• Cycladās

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈky.kɫa.deːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.kla.d̪es]

Cycladēs f pl (genitive Cycladum); third declension

1. The Cyclades

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• “Cyclades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cyclades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Cyclades f pl (plural only)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Cíclades.