Hydra

See also: hydra

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin Hydra, the mythical serpent.

Proper noun

Hydra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family  – predatory freshwater cnidarians, thought not to age, the hydras.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Cnidaria - phylum; Medusozoa - subphylum; Hydrozoa - class;  - order;  - suborder;  - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): , , ,  - selected species; for other species see Hydra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Hydra (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hydra on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hydra (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hydra at World Register of Marine Species

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English

A Greek vase depicting the Lernaean Hydra

Etymology

From Latin Hydra, the mythical serpent, originally from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ̯dɹə/, [ˈhaɪ̯dɹə], [ˈhaɪ̯d͡ʒɹə]

Proper noun

Hydra

1. (Greek mythology) A mythological serpent with many heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours.
2. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a serpent. It lies just south of the zodiac and contains the star Alphard.
3. (astronomy) One of Pluto's moons.

Synonyms

• (mythology): Lernaean Hydra; Xiangliu, Xiangyao (Chinese equivalent)
• (astronomy, moon of Pluto): Pluto II, S/2005 P 1, S/2005 P 1 (Hydra), (134340) Pluto II, (134340) Pluto II Hydra, Pluto II (Hydra)

Derived terms

• hydra
• Hydrae
• Hydrian

Translations

mythical serpent

• Czech: Hydra (cs) f
• Danish: Hydra
• Esperanto: hidro
• Finnish: Hydra (fi)
• French: Hydre de Lerne
• Galician: Hidra (gl)
• German: Hydra (de) f
• Greek: Λερναία Ύδρα f (Lernaía Ýdra)

  Ancient: Ὕδρα f (Húdra)

• Greenlandic: Hydra
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• Inuktitut: ᐦᐄᑦᕋ (hiitra)
• Irish: Hydra
• Italian: Idra di Lerna
• Japanese: ヒュドラー (hyudorā)
• Marathi: हाय्ड्रा (hāyḍrā)
• Polish: Hydra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Hidra de Lerna, Hidra (pt) f
• Russian: Лерне́йская ги́дра f (Lernéjskaja gídra)
• Spanish: Hidra de Lerna
• Telugu: హైడ్రా (haiḍrā)

constellation

• Czech: Hydra (cs) f, souhvězdí Hydry n
• Esperanto: Hidro
• Finnish: Hydra (fi), Vesikäärme
• French: Hydre (fr) f
• Galician: Hidra Femia (gl)
• German: Wasserschlange (de) f
• Greek: Ύδρα (el) f (Ýdra)

  Ancient: Ὕδρα f (Húdra)

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• Irish: an Phéist Uisce f
• Italian: Idra f
• Japanese: うみへび座 (ja) (Umihebi-za)
• Malay: Ular
• Polish: Hydra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Hidra (pt) f
• Russian: Ги́дра f (Gídra)
• Spanish: Hydra (es)

one of Pluto's moons

• Arabic: هِيدْرَا f (hīdrā)
• Armenian: Հիդրա (hy) (Hidra)
• Belarusian: Гідра (Hidra)
• Breton: Hydra
• Bulgarian: Хидра (Hidra)
• Catalan: Hidra
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥衛三／冥卫三, 冥卫三 (Míngwèisān)

• Czech: Hydra (cs)
• Danish: Hydra
• Dutch: Hydra (nl)
• Esperanto: Hidro
• Finnish: Hydra (fi)
• French: Hydra (fr), Hydre (fr)
• Galician: Hydra (gl)
• German: Hydra (de)
• Greek: Ύδρα (el) (Ýdra)
• Hindi: हाएड्रा (hāeḍrā)
• Hungarian: Hydra
• Ido: S/2005 P 1
• Irish: Hydra
• Italian: Idra
• Japanese: ヒドラ (ja) (Hidora)
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• Korean: 히드라 (Hideura)
• Latin: Hydra f
• Lithuanian: Hidra
• Low German: Hydra
• Manx: Hydra
• Marathi: हायड्रा (hāyaḍrā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hydra

  Nynorsk: Hydra

• Persian: هیدرا
• Polish: Hydra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Hidra (pt) f
• Romanian: Hydra
• Russian: Ги́дра f (Gídra)
• Serbo-Croatian: Hidra
• Slovak: Hydra
• Slovene: Hidra
• Spanish: Hidra (es)
• Turkish: Hydra
• Ukrainian: Гі́дра (Hídra)
• Vietnamese: Hydra
• Waray-Waray: Hydra
• Welsh: Hydra

See also

• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra

Anagrams

• Hardy, hardy

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Czech

Etymology

From hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪdra]
• Rhymes: -ɪdra
• Hyphenation: hyd‧ra

Noun

Hydra f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads
   • 1996, Antonín Rükl, “Hydra”, in Souhvězdí, Praha: Aventinum, →ISBN, page 126:

     […] místo každé uťaté hlavy vyrostly Hydře dvě nové.

     […] instead of every cut-off head two new heads grew up to Hydra.

2. (astronomy) Hydra, a spring constellation of the northern sky
   • 1996, Antonín Rükl, “Hydra”, in Souhvězdí, Praha: Aventinum, →ISBN, page 126:

     Alfa Hydrae – Alphard, 2,0 mag, je nejjasnější hvězda v Hydře.

     Alpha Hydrae – Alphard, 2.0 mag, is the brightest star in the constellation of Hydra.

3. (astronomy) Hydra, a moon of Pluto [since 2006]
   • 2015 June 12, Petr Lála, “Historická událost: sonda New Horizons zblízka prozkoumá záhadné Pluto”, in Technet.cz‎^[1]:

     Měsíce Hydra, Nix a Styx obíhají ve vzájemné rezonanci, protože za jeden oběh Hydry oběhne Nix právě jeden a půlkrát a Styx dokonce dvakrát.

     The moons Hydra, Nix and Styx orbit in mutual resonance, as Nix makes exactly one and half an orbit and Styx even two orbits during one orbit of Hydra.

4. (geography) Hydra, one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea
   • 1904, “Řecko”, in Ottův slovník naučný‎^[2], volume XXI, Praha: J. Ottl, page 359:

     Poloostrov Argolský, k němuž přiléhá ostrov Hydra (Hydrea), omezuje záliv Nauplijský […]

     The Argolid Penninsula, which the island of Hydra (Hydrea) closely borders with, closes the Argolic Gulf […]

Alternative forms

• (serpent): hydra

Derived terms

• hyderský
• Hydřin

See also

Solar System in Czech · sluneční soustava (layout · text)
Star	Slunce
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkur	Venuše	Země	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uran	Neptun	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Měsíc	Phobos/Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymed Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Hydra (mytologie) on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs
• Hydra (souhvězdí) on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs
• Hydra (měsíc) on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

Anagrams

• drahý
• dráhy
• hadry
• hrady

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German

Proper noun

Hydra f

1. (Greek mythology) Hydra (mythical serpent)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhy.dra/, [ˈhʏd̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dra/, [ˈiːd̪rä]

Proper noun

Hydra f sg (genitive Hydrae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) The Hydra (mythical serpent)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Hydra
Genitive	Hydrae
Dative	Hydrae
Accusative	Hydram
Ablative	Hydrā
Vocative	Hydra

References

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

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɨd.ra/

• audio:

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Proper noun

Hydra f

1. (Greek mythology) Hydra (mythical serpent)
2. (astronomy) Hydra (constellation)

Declension

Declension of Hydra

	singular
nominative	Hydra
genitive	Hydry
dative	Hydrze
accusative	Hydrę
instrumental	Hydrą
locative	Hydrze
vocative	Hydro

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Spanish

Proper noun

Hydra ?

1. (astronomy) Hydra (constellation)