Cyril

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• enPR: sīr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪɹəl/ (Philippines, colloquial)
• Rhymes: -ɪɹəl, (Philippines) -aɪɹəl

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, published 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.

   • 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2024:

     Zuma – a fierce critic of current ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – was forced to resign as president in 2018 and has been looking for political revenge ever since.

Derived terms

• Cyrillic
• JCB

Descendants

• → Cebuano: Cyril
• → Japanese: シリル (Shiriru)
• → Korean: 시릴 (Siril)

Translations

male given name

• Akkadian: ^{(please verify)} 𒆪𒊒𒅋𒇻𒇒𒋢 (ku-ru-il-lu-su)
• Arabic: كِيرُلُس m (kirulus), كِيرِيل (kiril), سِيرِيل (siril)
• Armenian: Կյուրեղ (Kyureġ)
• Belarusian: Кіры́л m (Kirýl)
• Bulgarian: Ки́рил m (Kíril)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西里爾 (zh) (Xīlǐ'ěr), 基里爾 (Jīlǐ'ěr), 濟利祿 / 济利禄 (Jìlìlù) (Catholic)

• Coptic: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ m (kurillos)
• Corsican: Cirillu m
• Czech: Cyril (cs) m
• Dutch: Cyriel m
• French: Cyrille (fr), Cyril (fr)
• Georgian: კირილე (ḳirile)
• Greek: Κύριλλος (el) m (Kýrillos)
• Hungarian: Cirill (hu)
• Ingrian: Kirila
• Italian: Cirillo (it) m
• Japanese: キリル (Kiriru), シリル (Shiriru)
• Korean: 키릴 (Kiril), 시릴 (Siril)
• Latvian: Kirils m
• Lithuanian: Kirilas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Кирил (mk) m (Kiril)
• Maltese: Ċirillu m
• Old Nubian: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ (kurillos)
• Polish: Cyryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cirilo (pt) m
• Romanian: Chiril m
• Russian: Кири́лл (ru) m (Kiríll), Си́рил (ru) m (Síril)
• Sami:

  Skolt Sami: Ǩiurrâl

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кирил m

  Latin: Kiril m

• Sicilian: Ciriḍḍu m
• Slovak: Cyril m
• Spanish: Cirilo m
• Ukrainian: Кири́ло m (Kyrýlo)

Kirill — see Kirill

See also

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

Anagrams

• Lyric, lyric

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Cy‧ril
• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾil/ [ˈsiː.ɾɪl]
• (colloquial, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈsajɾil/ [ˈsai̯.ɾɪl]

Proper noun

Cyril

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Cyril

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪrɪl]

Proper noun

Cyril m anim

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

Declension

Declension of Cyril (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Cyril	Cyrilové
genitive	Cyrila	Cyrilů
dative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilům
accusative	Cyrila	Cyrily
vocative	Cyrile	Cyrilové
locative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilech
instrumental	Cyrilem	Cyrily

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

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁ryós

Proto-Hellenic *kúrios

Ancient Greek κῡ́ριος (kū́rios)

Ancient Greek -ιλλος (-illos)

Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros)

Ancient Greek -ιλλος (-illos)

Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos)der.

Slovak Cyril

Derived from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡siril/, [ˈt͡siril]
• Rhymes: -iril
• Hyphenation: Cy‧ril

Proper noun

Cyril m pers (diminutive Cyrilko)

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

Declension

Declension of Cyril
(pattern chlap)

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

Derived terms

• 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, 2003–2026