halcyon
See also: Halcyon
English
Etymology
From Latin halcyōn, alcyōn (“kingfisher”), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn).
Pronunciation
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Noun
halcyon (plural halcyons)
- In classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence (poetic) a kingfisher.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, IV iv 132:
- Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
- c.1880, Ambrose Bierce, On a Mountain:
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
- A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 806: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.) of Australia.
Translations
poetic: kingfisher
bird of genus Halcyon
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Adjective
halcyon (comparative more halcyon, superlative most halcyon)
- Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
- 1787 — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 30
- Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age.
- 1842 — Thomas de Quincey, Cicero
- Deep, halcyon repose.
- 1919 — H.P. Lovecraft, The City
- I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
- 1787 — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 30
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to the kingfisher
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calm
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See also
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn, “kingfisher”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhal.ky.oːn/, [ˈhäɫ̪kyoːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈal.t͡ʃi.on/, [ˈäl̠ʲt͡ʃion]
Noun
halcyōn f (genitive halcyonis); third declension
- The halcyon; kingfisher.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | halcyōn | halcyonēs |
Genitive | halcyonis | halcyonum |
Dative | halcyonī | halcyonibus |
Accusative | halcyonem | halcyonēs |
Ablative | halcyone | halcyonibus |
Vocative | halcyōn | halcyonēs |
Synonyms
- (kingfisher, halcyon): alcēdō
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