hyacinthus

See also: Hyacinthus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos), but ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hy.aˈkin.tʰus/, [hyäˈkɪn̪t̪ʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.aˈt͡ʃin.tus/, [iäˈt͡ʃin̪t̪us]

Noun

hyacinthus m (genitive hyacinthī); second declension

1. iris (plant)
2. sapphire

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hyacinthus	hyacinthī
Genitive	hyacinthī	hyacinthōrum
Dative	hyacinthō	hyacinthīs
Accusative	hyacinthum	hyacinthōs
Ablative	hyacinthō	hyacinthīs
Vocative	hyacinthe	hyacinthī

Descendants

• → Catalan: jacint
• → English: hyacinth
• → Old French: jacinte
  • French: jacinthe
  • → Middle English: jacynct, jacinct, jacinctus, jacinkte, jacint, jacyncte, jacyngh, jacynt, jasynkt
    • English: jacinth
    • Scots: jacinct (obsolete)
• → Swedish: hyacint
  • → Finnish: hyasintti
• → German: Hyazinthe
  • → Russian: гиаци́нт (giacínt)
• → Middle High German: jāchant
  • → Polish: jachant
    • → Old East Slavic: ꙗхонт (jaxont)
      • Russian: я́хонт (jáxont)
      • Ukrainian: я́хонт (jáxont)
• → Hungarian: jácint
• → Italian: giacinto
• → Spanish: jacinto
• → Serbo-Croatian: hijàcint / хија̀цинт

References

• “hyacinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hyacinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hyacinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray