Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Hyacinthus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hyacinthaceae – the hyacinths.

English

Alternative forms

• Hyacinth

Proper noun

Hyacinthus

1. (Greek mythology) A Spartan youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo. The flower hyacinth sprang from his blood.

Translations

Latin

Noun

hyacinthus m ‎(genitive hyacinthī); second declension

1. iris (plant)
2. sapphire

Inflection

Second declension.

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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray