cyclus
English
Etymology
Latin cyclus
Noun
cyclus (plural cycluses or cycli)
- (archaic) A cycle, or series of poems.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsi.klʏs/
cyclus (file) - Hyphenation: cy‧clus
Noun
cyclus m (plural cycli or cyclussen, diminutive cyclusje n)
- A cycle, a complete rotation.
- A cycle, a repeatable series.
- A cycle, a collection of related texts or artworks.
Derived terms
- cyclisch
Descendants
- Afrikaans: siklus
- → Indonesian: siklus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈky.klus/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.klus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːklus]
Noun
cyclus m (genitive cyclī); second declension
- a circle
- a cycle, recurring period
- a branding implement
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cyclus | cyclī |
Genitive | cyclī | cyclōrum |
Dative | cyclō | cyclīs |
Accusative | cyclum | cyclōs |
Ablative | cyclō | cyclīs |
Vocative | cycle | cyclī |
Synonyms
- (circle): circulus
Related terms
- epicyclus
- hēmicyclus
Descendants
- Catalan: cicle
- Dutch: cyclus
- French: cycle
- Galician: ciclo
- Italian: ciclo
- Middle English: cicle
- English: cycle
- → Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)
- English: cycle
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: syklus, sykkel
- Nynorsk: syklus, sykkel
- Portuguese: ciclo
- Romanian: ciclu
- Sicilian: cìculu
- Spanish: ciclo
- Swedish: cykel
References
- “cyclus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cyclus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cyclus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette