Icarus

From Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪkəɹəs/

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Icarus

1. (Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.

• Icaria
• Icarian

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• cauris, curias

Borrowed from Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.kaː.rʏs/
• Hyphenation: Ica‧rus

Icarus m

1. Icarus (Greek mythological figure whose wings disintegrated, drowned in the Aegean)

• icarusblauwtje

From Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ka.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ka.rus]

Īcarus m sg (genitive Īcarī); second declension

1. Icarus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Īcaria
• Īcariotēs
• Īcarius

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