Hyades

English

Hyades Star Cluster

Etymology

From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hūás, “one of the Hyades”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ədiːz/
• Hyphenation: Hya‧des

Proper noun

Hyades

1. (Greek mythology) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.
2. (astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.

Translations

daughters of Atlas

• Finnish: hyadit pl
• Portuguese: Híades
• Russian: Гиа́ды (ru) f pl (Giády)

an open cluster

• Afrikaans: Hiade
• Basque: Hiadeak
• Belarusian: Гіяды (Hijady)
• Breton: Hiadezed
• Catalan: Híades
• Czech: Hyády
• Finnish: Hyadit pl
• German: Hyaden (de)
• Greek: Υάδες (Yádes)
• Hungarian: Hüaszok
• Italian: Iadi
• Japanese: ヒュアデス (Hyuadesu)
• Korean: 휘아데스 (hwiadeseu)
• Latin: Sūculae f pl
• Lithuanian: Hiadės
• Maori: Te Kōkota, Matakaheru
• Norwegian: Hyadene
• Old Norse: Ulfskeptr
• Polish: Hiady (pl)
• Portuguese: Híades
• Romanian: Hiade
• Russian: Гиа́ды (ru) f pl (Giády)
• Slovak: Hyády
• Swedish: Hyaderna
• Turkish: Boğa kümesi
• Ukrainian: Гіади (Hiady)

See also

• Pleiades

Anagrams

• Headys

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jad/

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Proper noun

Hyades f pl (plural only)

1. (astronomy, Greek mythology) Hyades

Latin

Alternative forms

• Hyadae, Hiadae

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ὑάς (Huás) (usually in plural Ὑάδες (Huádes)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhy.a.des/, [ˈhyäd̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.des/, [ˈiːäd̪es]

Proper noun

Hyades f pl (genitive Hyadum); third declension

1. the Hyades
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.138, (dactylic hexameter):

     Pleïadas, Hyadas, claramque Lycaonis Arcton

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.744, (dactylic hexameter):

     Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.595, (dactylic hexameter):

     Taygetenque Hyadasque oculis Arctonque notavi

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.164, (elegiac couplet):

     at simul inducent obscura crepuscula noctem/pars Hyadum toto de grege nulla latet.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.197, (elegiac couplet):

     Postera lux Hyadas, Taurinae cornua frontis/evocat, et multa terra madescit aqua.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Hyas	Hyades
Genitive	Hyadis	Hyadum
Dative	Hyadī	Hyadibus
Accusative	Hyadem	Hyadas
Ablative	Hyade	Hyadibus
Vocative	Hyas	Hyades

This noun is usually used in the plural rather than the singular.

See also

• Suculae

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Yades

Etymology

From Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hūás, “one of the Hyades”).

Noun

Hyades

1. Hyades

Descendants

• English: Hyades

References

• “Hiades, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.