alcyon

English

Noun

alcyon (plural alcyons)

1. Alternative form of halcyon

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alcyon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• calyon, cyanol

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

alcyon m (plural alcyons)

1. halcyon
2. kingfisher

Further reading

• “alcyon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

alcyon (kingfisher)

Alternative forms

• halcyōn

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn, “kingfisher”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ky.oːn/, [ˈäɫ̪kyoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.t͡ʃi.on/, [ˈäl̠ʲt͡ʃion]

Noun

alcyōn f (genitive alcyonis); third declension

1. The halcyon; kingfisher.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alcyōn	alcyonēs
Genitive	alcyonis	alcyonum
Dative	alcyonī	alcyonibus
Accusative	alcyonem	alcyonēs
Ablative	alcyone	alcyonibus
Vocative	alcyōn	alcyonēs

Synonyms

• (kingfisher, halcyon): alcēdō

Related terms

• alcēdō
• Alcyonē

Descendants

• Catalan: alció
• → English: halcyon
• French: halcyon
• Romanian: alcion
• Spanish: alción

References

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