Hydra

See also: hydra, hydrą, and Hydrą

Translingual

Hydra viridissima

Etymology

From Latin Hydra, the mythical serpent.

Proper noun

Hydra f

A taxonomic genus within the family Hydridae – predatory freshwater cnidarians, thought not to age, the hydras.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Cnidaria - phylum; Medusozoa - subphylum; Hydrozoa - class; Hydroida - order; Hydrida - suborder; Hydridae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Hydra magnipapillata, Hydra oligactis (brown hydra), Hydra viridissima (green hydra), Hydra vulgaris (freshwater hydra) - selected species; for other species see Hydra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

Protohydra

References

Hydra (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hydra on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hydra (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hydra at World Register of Marine Species

English

A Greek vase depicting the Lernaean Hydra

Etymology

From Latin Hydra, the mythical serpent, originally from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ̯dɹə/, [ˈhaɪ̯dɹə], [ˈhaɪ̯d͡ʒɹə]

Proper noun

Hydra

(Greek mythology) A mythological serpent with many heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours.
(astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a serpent. It lies just south of the zodiac and contains the star Alphard.
(astronomy) One of Pluto's moons.
One of the Saronic Islands in the Aegean Sea.

Synonyms

(mythology): Lernaean Hydra; Xiangliu, Xiangyao (Chinese equivalent)
(astronomy, moon of Pluto): Pluto II, S/2005 P 1, S/2005 P 1 (Hydra), (134340) Pluto II, (134340) Pluto II Hydra, Pluto II (Hydra)

Derived terms

hydra
Hydrae
Hydrian

Translations

mythical serpent

Chinese:
Mandarin: 九頭蛇／九头蛇 (Jiǔtóushé), 海德拉 (Hǎidélā), 許德拉／许德拉 (Xǔdélā)
Czech: Hydra (cs) f
Danish: Hydra
Esperanto: hidro
Finnish: Hydra (fi)
French: Hydre de Lerne
Galician: Hidra (gl)
German: Hydra (de) f
Greek: Λερναία Ύδρα f (Lernaía Ýdra)
Ancient: ὕδρα f (húdra)
Greenlandic: Hydra
Inuktitut: ᐦᐄᑦᕋ (hiitra)
Irish: Hydra
Italian: Idra di Lerna
Japanese: ヒュドラー (hyudorā)
Latin: hydra f
Marathi: हाय्ड्रा (hāyḍrā)
Polish: Hydra (pl) f
Portuguese: Hidra de Lerna, Hidra (pt) f
Russian: Лерне́йская ги́дра f (Lernéjskaja gídra)
Spanish: Hidra de Lerna
Telugu: హైడ్రా (haiḍrā)

constellation

Arabic: حَيَّة الْمِيَاه‎ (ḥayya(t) al-miyāh)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 長蛇座／长蛇座 (zh) (Chángshézuò)
Czech: Hydra (cs) f, souhvězdí Hydry n
Esperanto: Hidro
Finnish: Hydra (fi), Vesikäärme (fi)
French: Hydre (fr) f
Galician: Hidra Femia (gl)
German: Wasserschlange (de) f
Greek: Ύδρα (el) f (Ýdra)
Ancient: Ὕδρα f (Húdra)
Irish: an Phéist Uisce f
Italian: Idra f
Japanese: うみへび座 (ja) (Umihebi-za), 海蛇座 (ja) (うみへびざ)
Kazakh: Гидра (Gidra)
Latin: Hydra f, Anguis m
Malay: Ular
Polish: Hydra (pl) f
Portuguese: Hidra (pt) f
Russian: Ги́дра f (Gídra)
Spanish: Hydra (es)

one of Pluto's moons

Arabic: هِيدْرَا‎ f (hīdrā)
Armenian: Հիդրա (hy) (Hidra)
Belarusian: Гідра (Hidra)
Breton: Hydra
Bulgarian: Хидра (Hidra)
Catalan: Hidra
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冥衛三／冥卫三 (Míngwèisān)
Czech: Hydra (cs)
Danish: Hydra
Dutch: Hydra (nl)
Esperanto: Hidro
Finnish: Hydra (fi)
French: Hydra (fr), Hydre (fr)
Galician: Hydra (gl)
German: Hydra (de)
Greek: Ύδρα (el) (Ýdra)
Hindi: हाएड्रा (hāeḍrā)
Hungarian: Hydra
Ido: S/2005 P 1
Irish: Hydra
Italian: Idra
Japanese: ヒドラ (ja) (Hidora)
Kazakh: Гидра (Gidra)
Korean: 히드라 (Hideura)
Latin: Hydra f
Lithuanian: Hidra
Low German: Hydra
Manx: Hydra
Marathi: हायड्रा (hāyaḍrā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Hydra
Nynorsk: Hydra
Persian: هیدرا‎
Polish: Hydra (pl) f
Portuguese: Hidra (pt) f
Romanian: Hydra
Russian: Ги́дра f (Gídra)
Serbo-Croatian: Hidra
Slovak: Hydra
Slovene: Hidra
Spanish: Hidra (es)
Turkish: Hydra
Ukrainian: Гі́дра (Hídra)
Vietnamese: Hydra
Waray-Waray: Hydra
Welsh: Hydra

Anagrams

Hardy, hardy

Czech

Etymology

From hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪdra]
Rhymes: -ɪdra
Hyphenation: Hyd‧ra

Noun

Hydra f

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads
- 1996, Antonín Rükl, “Hydra”, in Souhvězdí, Praha: Aventinum, →ISBN, page 126:
  […] místo každé uťaté hlavy vyrostly Hydře dvě nové.
  […] instead of every cut-off head two new heads grew up to Hydra.
(astronomy) Hydra, a spring constellation of the northern sky
- 1996, Antonín Rükl, “Hydra”, in Souhvězdí, Praha: Aventinum, →ISBN, page 126:
  Alfa Hydrae – Alphard, 2,0 mag, je nejjasnější hvězda v Hydře.
  Alpha Hydrae – Alphard, 2.0 mag, is the brightest star in the constellation of Hydra.
(astronomy) Hydra, a moon of Pluto [since 2006]
- 2015 June 12, Petr Lála, “Historická událost: sonda New Horizons zblízka prozkoumá záhadné Pluto”, in Technet.cz‎:
  Měsíce Hydra, Nix a Styx obíhají ve vzájemné rezonanci, protože za jeden oběh Hydry oběhne Nix právě jeden a půlkrát a Styx dokonce dvakrát.
  The moons Hydra, Nix and Styx orbit in mutual resonance, as Nix makes exactly one and half an orbit and Styx even two orbits during one orbit of Hydra.
(geography) Hydra, one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea
- 1904, “Řecko”, in Ottův slovník naučný‎, volume XXI, Praha: J. Ottl, page 359:
  Poloostrov Argolský, k němuž přiléhá ostrov Hydra (Hydrea), omezuje záliv Nauplijský […]
  The Argolid Penninsula, which the island of Hydra (Hydrea) closely borders with, closes the Argolic Gulf […]

Declension

Declension of Hydra

	singulare tantum
nominative	Hydra
genitive	Hydry
dative	Hydře
accusative	Hydru
vocative	Hydro
locative	Hydře
instrumental	Hydrou

Alternative forms

(serpent): hydra

Derived terms

hyderský
Hydřin

Anagrams

drahý
dráhy
hadry
hrady

German

Etymology

From Latin hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhyːdʁa/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Hydra f

(Greek mythology) Hydra (mythical serpent)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhy.dra/, [ˈhʏd̪rä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dra/, [ˈiːd̪rä]

Proper noun

Hydra f sg (genitive Hydrae); first declension

(Greek mythology) The Hydra (mythical serpent)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Hydra
Genitive	Hydrae
Dative	Hydrae
Accusative	Hydram
Ablative	Hydrā
Vocative	Hydra

Descendants

English: Hydra, hydra
French: hydre
German: Hydra
Italian: idra
Portuguese: hidra
Spanish: hidra

References

“Hydra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Hydra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra), from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. Doublet of nutria (“coypu”) and wydra (“otter”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxɨd.ra/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɨdra
Syllabification: Hyd‧ra
Homophone: hydra

Proper noun

Hydra f

(Greek mythology) Hydra (mythical serpent)
(astronomy) Hydra (constellation)

Declension

Declension of Hydra

	singular
nominative	Hydra
genitive	Hydry
dative	Hydrze
accusative	Hydrę
instrumental	Hydrą
locative	Hydrze
vocative	Hydro

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈidɾa/ [ˈi.ð̞ɾa]
Rhymes: -idɾa
Syllabification: Hy‧dra

Proper noun

Hydra f

(astronomy) Hydra (constellation)

Hydra

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English

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Czech

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German

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Latin

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Polish

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Spanish

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