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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /al.sjɔ̃/
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Noun

alcyon m (plural alcyons)

  1. halcyon
  2. kingfisher

Further reading

Latin
alcyon (kingfisher)

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.ky.oːn/, [ˈäɫ̪kyoːn]
  • (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

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
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