Hyades

From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ədiːz/
• Hyphenation: Hya‧des

Hyades

1. (Greek mythology) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.
2. (astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.

• Pleiades

• Headys

• IPA^(key): /jad/

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Hyades f pl (plural only)

1. (astronomy, Greek mythology) Hyades

• Hyadae, Hiadae

From Ancient Greek Ὑάς (Huás) (usually in plural Ὑάδες (Huádes)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhy.a.dɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.a.d̪es]

Hyades f pl (genitive Hyadum); third declension

1. the
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.138, (dactylic hexameter):

     Pleïadas, Hyadas, claramque Lycaonis Arcton

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.744, (dactylic hexameter):

     Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones

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   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.595, (dactylic hexameter):

     Taygetenque Hyadasque oculis Arctonque notavi

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   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.164, (elegiac couplet):

     at simul inducent obscura crepuscula noctem/pars Hyadum toto de grege nulla latet.

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   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.197, (elegiac couplet):

     Postera lux Hyadas, Taurinae cornua frontis/evocat, et multa terra madescit aqua.

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

This noun is usually used in the plural rather than the singular.

• Suculae

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

• Yades

From Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”).

Hyades

1. Hyades

• English: Hyades

• “Hiades, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.