cyclops
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsaɪˌklɒps//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈsaɪˌklɑps//
A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
Substantiv
- 1
A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
- 2
A one-eyed creature of any species.
- 3
A person with only one working eye.
- 4
Any copepod in the genus Cyclops.
- 5
A small magnifying lens in the crystal of a watch to aid in reading the date.
Herkunft
Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops ['round eyes']”). The sense for copepods is a semantic loan from translingual Cyclops.
Formen
- Plural
- cyclopes, cyclopses
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cyclops · A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
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