Cyril

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪrəl

Proper noun

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 (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.

Derived terms

• Cyrillic

Translations

male given name

• Akkadian: 𒆪𒊒𒅋𒇻𒇒𒋢 (ku-ru-il-lu-su)
• Arabic: كِيرُلُس m (kirulus), كِيرِيل (kiril), سِيرِيل (siril),
• Armenian: Կյուրեղ (Kyureġ)
• Belarusian: Кіры́л m (Kirýl)
• Bulgarian: Кири́л m (Kiríl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西里爾 (Xīlǐ'ěr), 西里尔 (Xīlǐ'ěr), 基里爾 (Jīlǐ'ěr), 基里尔 (Jīlǐ'ěr)

• Corsican: Cirillu m
• French: Cyrille (fr), Cyril (fr)
• Georgian: კირილე (ḳirile)
• Greek: Κύριλλος (el) m (Kýrillos)
• Italian: Cirillo (it) m
• Japanese: キリル (Kiriru), シリル (Shiriru)
• Korean: 키릴 (Kiril), 시릴 (Siril)
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• Latvian: Kirils m
• Lithuanian: Kirilas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Кирил (mk) m (Kiril)
• Maltese: Ċirillu m
• Polish: Cyryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cirilo m
• Russian: Кири́лл (ru) m (Kiríll), Си́рил (ru) m (Síril)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кирил m

  Roman: Kiril m

• Skolt Sami: Ǩiurrâl
• Slovak: Cyril m
• Ukrainian: Кири́ло m (Kyrýlo)

Kirill — see Kirill

See also

• Cyrillus
• Cyryl
• Kiril
• Kirill
• Kiryl
• Kyrill
• Kyril
• Kyrylo

Anagrams

• Lyric, lyric

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Noun

Cyril

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪrɪl]

Proper noun

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁil/

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Proper noun

Cyril m

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

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Slovak

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡siril]

Proper noun

Cyril m (genitive singular Cyrila, nominative plural Cyrilovia, declension pattern of chlap)

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

Declension

Declension of Cyril

	singular	plural
nominative	Cyril	Cyrilovia
genitive	Cyrila	Cyrilov
dative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilom
accusative	Cyrila	Cyrilov
locative	Cyrilovi	Cyriloch
instrumental	Cyrilom	Cyrilmi

Derived terms

• Cyrilko
• Cyrko
• Cyro
• Cyruško

 

Further reading

• “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, 2024