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Webster 1828 Edition

Cyclades

CYCLADES

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Noun.

plu.

[Gr., a circle.] A number of isles arranged round the isle of delos, in the Grecian Sea, in the form of a circle.

Definition 2024

Cyclades

Cyclades

English

Proper noun

Cyclades pl

An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and Zea.

used with the definite article (The Cyclades), unless some islands are specified

Translations

island chain

Bulgarian: Циклади m pl ‎(Cikladi)
Catalan: Cíclades m pl
Czech: Kyklady m pl
Danish: Kykladerne c pl
Dutch: Cycladen m pl
Estonian: Küklaadid
Finnish: Kykladit (fi)
French: Cyclades (fr) f pl
German: Kykladen
Greek: Κυκλάδες (el) ‎(Kykládes)
Ancient: Κυκλάδες ‎(Kukládes)
Hungarian: Kükládok
Italian: Cicladi m pl
Latin: Cyclades

Latvian: Kikladas f pl
Lithuanian: Kiklados f pl
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Kykladene

Nynorsk: Kykladane
Polish: Cyklady m pl
Portuguese: Cíclades f pl
Romanian: Ciclade f pl
Russian: Киклады m pl ‎(Kiklady)
Slovak: Kyklady
Slovene: Kikladi (sl) m pl
Spanish: Cícladas f pl
Swedish: Kykladerna c pl
Turkish: Kiklad Adaları
Ukrainian: Кіклади m pl ‎(Kiklady)

See also

Dodecanese
Sporades pl

French

Proper noun

Cyclades f pl

The Cyclades

Latin

Proper noun

Cyclades pl

The Cyclades

References

Cyclades in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Cyclades”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Cyclades f pl

Obsolete spelling of Cíclades (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).