# Cyrus
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaɪɹəs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪɹəs

### Etymology 1

From Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (kuruš). As a saints' name it has been identified by folk etymology with Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

#### Proper noun

Cyrus (plural Cyruses or (rare) Cyri)
* An ancient king of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
** 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Esdras [Ezra] j:[2], folio cvij, recto, column 1:Thus ſayeth Cyꝛus the kynge of Perſia: The LORDE God of heauẽ hath geuen me all the kyngdomes in the londe and hath commaunded me to buylde him an houſe at Ieruſalem in Iuda.
** 2018, Luuk Huitink, “Xenophon”, in Koen De Temmerman, Evert van Emde Boas, editors, Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Mnemosyne Supplements: Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 411; Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, 4), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part 7 (Biography), page 471:Furthermore, the superlative formulation of Cyrus’ character (he possesses kallos, philanthrōpia, philomathia and philotimia to an outstanding degree) may be thought to make him a supremely successful leader, but also a unique and not so easily imitated one (how many Cyruses do you know? Can you be Cyrus?).
* A male given name from Old Persian.
** 1610, Io[annes] Lod[ovicus] Viues, translated by I[ohn] H[ealey], S$^t$. Augustine, of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Viues. […], [London]: […] George Eld, page 125 and index:Cyrus] There were two Cyri the greater, meant here, Conqueror of Aſia, Scythia, and all the Eaſt, reigning in the time of Tarquin the proud. […] The other was Cyrus the leſſer, ſonne to Darius, brother to Artaxerxes, whoſe iourney into Perſia, Xenophon wrote. [marginal note:] The tvvo Cyri. […] Cyri who they were.
** 1973, D. Hegyi, “Historical Authenticity of Herodotus in the Persian «Logoi»”, in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 21, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISSN, pages 76–77:At this passage the Behistun inscription does not enumerate the names of all the nine Achaemenians, but from an inscription Aššurbānapli to be dated to 639 B. C. we know that a certain Kuraš was the king of the country of Parsumaš at this time and this could be the grandfather of Cyrus «the Great». In the family tree between the two Cyri appears Cambyses I, who is mentioned by Herodotus.
** 1980, J[ohn] E[dward] Atkinson, “Commentary on Book 3”, in A Commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni, Books 3 and 4, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, page 137:Contrast Arrian’s statement that the camp belonged to the younger Cyrus (ii, 4.3). It is unlikely that both Cyri camped in the same area (pace Mützell), for when Cyrus marched against Croesus he entered Asia Minor on the northerly route, as Pteria was his first objective (Hdt. i, 76.1), and he would not therefore have gone through the Cilician Gates.
* A surname.

##### Derived terms

* St Cyrus

##### Translations
#### References

* Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges (2001) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press

### Etymology 2

From Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), perhaps from Urartian 𒆳𒄣𒊑𒀀𒉌 ($^{KUR}$qu-ri-a-ni /⁠Quriani⁠/), a land possibly in the upper reaches of the Kura river.

#### Proper noun

the Cyrus
* The Kura river, as it is called in classical sources.
** 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 321:In the mountains near Suram is a watering-place called Burjan, to which the Imperial Lieutenant of the Caucasus retires in summer. The river Kur, the ancient Cyrus, takes its rise in that district.

#### See also

* Phasis

#### References

* ↑ Diakonoff, I. M., Kashkai, S. M. (1981) “Quriane”, in Geographical Names According to Urartian Texts (Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes; 9), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, pages 70–71

### Anagrams

* crusy

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### Etymology

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From English Cyrus, from Latin Cyrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (kuruš).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsajɾus/ [ˈs̪aɪ̯.ɾ̪ʊs̪]

### Proper noun

Cyrus
* Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia
* a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Old Persian]

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkyː.rus/, [ˈkyːrʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.rus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːrus]

### Proper noun

Cȳrus m sg (genitive Cȳrī); second declension
* Cyrus
* (rivers) Kura

#### Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* Cȳrēa

### References

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