Cygnus

See also: cygnus

Translingual

Cygnus cygnus

Etymology

From Latin cygnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).

Proper noun

Cygnus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Anatidae – swans.

Usage notes

• Some of the swans, notably the North American trumpeter swan and tundra swan were earlier classified to the genus Olor, but they are now regarded as belonging to Cygnus.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae – clades; Carinatae – subclass; Neornithes – infraclass; Neognathae – parvclass; Anseriformes – order; Anatidae – family; Anserinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cygnus cygnus - type species; for other species see Cygnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Cygnus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for species.

References

• Swan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cygnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cygnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

The constellation Cygnus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cygnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).

Proper noun

Cygnus

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.
2. (Greek mythology) A king of the Ligurians and relative of Phaeton who was transformed into a swan and placed in the sky as a constellation.

Synonyms

• (constellation): Northern Cross
• (mythology): Cycnus

Derived terms

• Cygni

Related terms

• cygnet
• cygnine
• cygneous

Translations

constellation

• Afrikaans: Swaan
• Arabic: الدَّجَاجَة f (ad-dajāja)
• Armenian: Կարապ (Karap)
• Azerbaijani: Qu
• Bashkir: Аҡҡош (Aqqoş)
• Belarusian: Лебедзь m (Ljebjedzʹ)
• Breton: Alarc'h m
• Bulgarian: Лебед m (Lebed)
• Burmese: ဆိုင်နပ် (hcuingnap), ဆင်တာရာ (my) (hcangtara)
• Catalan: Cigne (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天鵝座／天鹅座 (tin¹ ngo⁴ zo⁶)

  Eastern Min: 天鵝座／天鹅座 (Tiĕng-ngò̤-cô̤)

  Hokkien: 天鵝座／天鹅座 (Thian-ngô͘-chō)

  Mandarin: 天鵝座／天鹅座 (zh) (Tiān'ézuò)

• Czech: Labuť (cs) f
• Danish: Svanen n
• Dutch: Zwaan (nl) m
• Esperanto: Cigno
• Estonian: Luik (et)
• Finnish: Joutsen (fi)
• French: Cygne (fr) m
• Galician: Cisne (gl) m
• Georgian: გედი (gedi)
• German: Schwan (de) m
• Greek: Κύκνος (el) m (Kýknos)

  Ancient: Κύκνος m (Kúknos)

• Hebrew: בַּרְבּוּר (he) m (barbúr)
• Hindi: हंस (hi) m (hans)
• Hungarian: Hattyú (hu)
• Irish: an Eala f, Cros an Tuaiscirt f
• Italian: Cigno (it) m
• Japanese: 白鳥座 (ja) (hakuchōza)
• Kazakh: Аққу (Aqqu)
• Korean: 백조(白鳥)자리 (Baekjojari)
• Kyrgyz: Ак куу (Ak kuu)
• Latin: Cygnus (la) m
• Latvian: Gulbis m
• Lithuanian: Gulbė f
• Macedonian: Лебед m (Lebed)
• Malay: Cygnus
• Malayalam: ജായര (jāyara)
• Maori: Maratea
• Marathi: हंस m (hausa)
• Moksha: Озял (Oźal)
• Nepali: हंस (hansa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Svanen (no) n

  Nynorsk: Svana f

• Occitan: Cigne m
• Persian: ماکیان (fa) (mâkiyân)
• Polish: Łabędź (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cisne (pt) m
• Romanian: Lebădă (ro) f
• Russian: Ле́бедь (ru) m (Lébedʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ла̏бӯд m

  Roman: Lȁbūd m

• Slovak: Labuť f
• Slovene: Labod (sl) m
• Spanish: Cygnus m
• Swahili: Dajaja
• Swedish: Svanen (sv) n
• Tagalog: Gansa, Hilagang Paripa
• Tamil: சிக்னசு (cikṉacu)
• Tatar: Аккош (Aqkoş)
• Thai: กลุ่มดาวหงส์ (glùm daao hŏng)
• Tibetan: ངང་དཀར་སྐར་ཚོམ (ngang dkar skar tshom)
• Turkish: Kuğu (tr)
• Tuvan: Куу (Kuu)
• Ukrainian: Ле́бідь m (Lébidʹ)
• Urdu: ہنس m (hans)
• Uzbek: Oqqush
• Vietnamese: Thiên Nga
• Yakut: Куба (Kuba)

Anagrams

• scungy

Spanish

Proper noun

Cygnus m

1. (astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)