κύκνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">swan, Cycnus olor</b>, κύκνων δουλιχοδείρων <span class="bibl">Il.2.460</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>316</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>620a</span>, <span class="bibl">Eratosth.<span class="title">Cat.</span>25</span>, etc.; sacred to Apollo, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>870</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>85b</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Ap.</span>5</span>: Com., βάτραχοι κ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>207</span>; κύκνου δίκην τὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1444</span>: hence, metaph., <b class="b2">minstrel, bard</b>, AP7.19 (Leon.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> kind of ship, prob. from its prow being curved like a <b class="b2">swan's</b> neck, <span class="bibl">Nicostr.Com. 10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">eye-salve</b>, Gal.12.708, 759, etc. [ῡ by position in Ep.; ῠ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.82</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.16.49</span> in pr. n. <b class="b3">Κύκνος</b>.]</span>

|elnltext=κύκνος -ου, ὁ zwaan.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[swan]] (Il.), also name of a ship, after the front-part (Nicostr. Com.), and an eye- salve, after the colour (Gal.; with <b class="b3">κυκνάριον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, Ät., Gal.); also PN (Pi.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κύκνειος</b> <b class="b2">belonging to Kyknos or the\/a swan</b> (Pi., S., hell.), f. <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> (S., Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 112); <b class="b3">κυκνίας</b> m. mame of a white eagle (Paus.; cf. <b class="b3">κορακίας</b> a.o., Chantraine Formation 94)<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [597] <b class="b2">*ḱeuk-</b> <b class="b2">lighten, be white</b><br />Etymology: Amply on <b class="b3">κύκνος</b> Thompson Birds s. v.; there also doubts on <b class="b3">κυκνίας</b>. Since Wood AmJPh 21, 179 as "the white one" (cf. on <b class="b3">ἀλφός</b>) connected with Skt. <b class="b2">śócati</b> [[lighten]], [[glow]], <b class="b2">šuk-rá-</b> [[light]], [[hell]], [[white]]. (W.-)Hofmann s. [[cicōnia]] is rather (with Berneker and H. Petersson) inclined to assume an onomatopoet. origin (cf. Russ. [[kykъ]] <b class="b2">cry of a swan</b>). In <b class="b3">κύδνος κύκνος</b> H., after Specht Ursprung 121, 204, 229 old variation [[k]] : [[d]], we have rather a hypercorrect writing after Lat. [[cycnus]], [[cygnus]] (<b class="b2">C-</b>) = <b class="b3">κύκνος</b>, but also for <b class="b3">Κύδνος</b> (Schulze Kl. Schr. 700; cf. Schwyzer 208).