Cygnus

See also: cygnus

Translingual

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
• Category:Cygnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Cygnus

Wikipedia

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 (Ozäl) 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

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Cygnus

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Cygnus m

1. (astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)