cygne

Inherited from Old French cisne, cine, from Late Latin cicinus, from Latin cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).^[1] The modern spelling is in imitation of the Latin variant form cygnus, and the modern pronunciation is a spelling-pronunciation based on that.

• IPA^(key): /siɲ/

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• Homophones: cygnes, signe, signent, signes
• Rhymes: -iɲ

cygne m (plural cygnes)

1. swan

• chant du cygne
• cygne noir

• “cygne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cygne m

1. vocative singular of cygnus