1. κύκνος · kyknos — Beekes
swan
The corpus record
κύκνος
kuknos
swan
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Shield of Heracles 3 · 9.27/10k
- Analytica priora et posteriora 21 · 3.78/10k
- Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
- Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
- Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Phaedo 4 · 1.83/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. κύκνος · kyknos — Chantraine
après la forme de son avant (Nicostr. com. 10), et d
3. κύκνος · kyknos — Frisk
Schwan
4. κύκνος · kyknos — LSJ
swan, Cycnus olor
Attestations
- κύκνων · kyknōn Iliad 2.460
- κύκνων · kyknōn Iliad 15.692
- κύκνοι · kyknoi Shield of Heracles 314–316
- κύκνε · kykne Shield of Heracles 350–351
- κύκνον · kyknon Shield of Heracles 472–474
- κύκνου · kyknou Plato, Republic 10.620 (DIORISIS sentence 6364)
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Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan p. 846; entry #3540
Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
- scan p. 612; entry #4478 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 1017; entry #3345 Review: Under source audit
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