hyacinthus
See also: Hyacinthus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos), but ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hy.aˈkɪn.tʰʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.aˈt͡ʃin̪.t̪us]
Noun
hyacinthus m (genitive hyacinthī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hyacinthus | hyacinthī |
| genitive | hyacinthī | hyacinthōrum |
| dative | hyacinthō | hyacinthīs |
| accusative | hyacinthum | hyacinthōs |
| ablative | hyacinthō | hyacinthīs |
| vocative | hyacinthe | hyacinthī |
Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: jacint
- → English: hyacinth
- → French: hyacinthe
- → Old French: jacinte
- → Middle High German: jāchant
- → German: Hyazinthe, Hyacinthe, Hyacinthus (obsolete)
- → Russian: гиаци́нт (giacínt)
- → Hungarian: jácint
- → Italian: giacinto
- → Spanish: jacinto
- → Serbo-Croatian: hijàcint / хија̀цинт
- → Swedish: hyacint
- → Finnish: hyasintti
References
- “hyacinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hyacinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hyacinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray