κύανος
Appearance
See also: κυανός
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, probably from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “precious stone, copper, blue”), of unknown origin, possibly Sumerian 𒆬𒆪 (ku₃-an /kù.an/).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.a.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.a.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.a.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.a.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.a.nos/
Noun
[edit]κῠ́ᾰνος • (kúanos) m (genitive κῠᾰ́νου); second declension
- dark blue enamel, especially used to adorn armour
- (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
- (mineralogy) azurite
- blue copper carbonate
- cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
- blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius)
- (feminine) blue or a shade of blue
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῠ́ᾰνος ho kúanos |
τὼ κῠᾰ́νω tṑ kuánō |
οἱ κῠ́ᾰνοι hoi kúanoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῠᾰ́νου toû kuánou |
τοῖν κῠᾰ́νοιν toîn kuánoin |
τῶν κῠᾰ́νων tôn kuánōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῠᾰ́νῳ tôi kuánōi |
τοῖν κῠᾰ́νοιν toîn kuánoin |
τοῖς κῠᾰ́νοις toîs kuánois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῠ́ᾰνον tòn kúanon |
τὼ κῠᾰ́νω tṑ kuánō |
τοὺς κῠᾰ́νους toùs kuánous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠ́ᾰνε kúane |
κῠᾰ́νω kuánō |
κῠ́ᾰνοι kúanoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κῠᾰ́ναιγῐς (kuánaigis)
- κῠᾰνᾰ́μπῠξ (kuanámpux)
- κῠᾰνᾰνθής (kuananthḗs)
- κῠᾰναυγής (kuanaugḗs)
- κῠᾰναῦλᾰξ (kuanaûlax)
- κῠᾰνέμβολος (kuanémbolos)
- κῠᾰ́νεος (kuáneos)
- κῠᾰνέω (kuanéō)
- κῠᾰνῐ́ζω (kuanízō)
- κῠᾰνῖτῐς (kuanîtis)
- κῠᾰνοβενθής (kuanobenthḗs)
- κῠᾰνοβλέφᾰρος (kuanoblépharos)
- κῠᾰνοειδής (kuanoeidḗs)
- κῠᾰνοκρήδεμνος (kuanokrḗdemnos)
- κῠᾰνόπεζᾰ (kuanópeza)
- κῠᾰνόπεπλος (kuanópeplos)
- κῠᾰνοπλόκᾰμος (kuanoplókamos)
- κῠᾰνόπλοκος (kuanóplokos)
- κῠᾰνόπρῳρος (kuanóprōiros)
- κῠᾰνόπτερος (kuanópteros)
- κῠᾰνοπτέρῠξ (kuanoptérux)
- κῠᾰνόστολος (kuanóstolos)
- κῠᾰ́νοφρῠς (kuánophrus)
- κῠᾰνοχαίτης (kuanokhaítēs)
- κῠᾰνόχροος (kuanókhroos)
- κῠᾰνώπης (kuanṓpēs)
- κῠᾰνωπός (kuanōpós)
- κῠᾰ́νωσῐς (kuánōsis)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: κυανός (kyanós)
- → Dutch: cyaan
- → English: cyan, cyano-
- → French: cyan
- → German: Zyan
- → Italian: ciano
- → Latin: cȳanos, cȳanus
- Spanish: aciano
- → Ottoman Turkish: كیانوس (kiyānus)
- > Turkish: kiyanus (inherited)
- → Swedish: cyan
Further reading
[edit]- “κύανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κύανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κύανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κύανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κύανος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κύανος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Sumerian
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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