cycnus

• cygnus
• cignus

From Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈky.knʊs]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkyk.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃik.nus]

cycnus m (genitive cycnī); second declension

1. A swan; a bird noted for its singing and sacred to Apollo.

   Synonym: olor

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 9.103:

     Quae noua tam similis genuit tibi Leda ministros?
     Qua͞e ca͞pta e͞st ălĭō nūdă Lăca͞enă cy̆cnō?

     • 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

       What new Leda bore for you servitors so like? What naked Laconian girl was caught by another swan?

2. (figuratively) A poet, especially one who sings.

Second-declension noun.

• cycneus

(Some come from the variant form cygnus.)

• “cycnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cycnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cycnus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cycnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cycnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cycnus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray