Cyril

Via Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios, “lord, master”).

• enPR: sĭr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəl/
• enPR: sīr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪɹəl/ (Philippines, colloquial)
• Rhymes: -ɪɹəl, (Philippines) -aɪɹəl

Cyril

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.
   • 1954, P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions, Herbert Jenkins, published 1957, page 35:

     Boxers, too, not so long ago a somewhat uncouth section of the community who were seldom if ever mistaken for members of the Vere de Vere family, have taken on a polish which makes their society a pleasure. They have names like Cyril and Percy and Clarence and live up to them.

   • 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Zuma – a fierce critic of current ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – was forced to resign as president in 2018 and has been looking for political revenge ever since.

• Cyrillic
• JCB

• → Cebuano: Cyril
• → Japanese: シリル (Shiriru)
• → Korean: 시릴 (Siril)

• Lyric, lyric

From English Cyril, from Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios).

• Hyphenation: Cy‧ril
• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾil/ [ˈs̪i.ɾ̪ɪl̪]
• (colloquial, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈsajɾil/ [ˈs̪aɪ̯.ɾ̪ɪl̪]

Cyril

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Cyril

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪrɪl]

Cyril m anim

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Cyril

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁil/

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Cyril m

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Cyrille

Derived from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡siril]

Cyril m pers (diminutive Cyrilko)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Cyril

• “Cyril”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025