Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CYCLOPS
n.[Gr. , a circle, an eye. ] In fabulous history, certain giants, the sons of Neptune and Amshitrite, who had but one circular eye in the midst of the forehead. They inhabited Sicily, and assisted Vulcan in making thunderbolts for Jupiter.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CYCLOPS
Cy "clops (s "klps ), n. sing. & pl. Etym: [L. Cyclops, Gr.
1. (Gr. Myth. )
Defn: One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
Note: Pope, in his translation of the "Odyssey, " uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Cyclops
Cy clops |ˈsīˌkläps ˈsaɪˌklɑps | ▶noun 1 ( pl. Cyclops or Cyclopes |sīˈklōpēz | ) Greek Mythology a member of a race of savage one-eyed giants. In the Odyssey, Odysseus escaped death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus. 2 ( cyclops ) a minute predatory freshwater crustacean which has a cylindrical body with a single central eye. [Genus Cyclops and other genera, order Cyclopoida. ] ORIGIN via Latin from Greek Kuklōps, literally ‘round-eyed, ’ from kuklos ‘circle ’ + ōps ‘eye. ’
Oxford Dictionary
Cyclops
Cyclops |ˈsʌɪklɒps | ▶noun 1 ( pl. Cyclops or Cyclopes |sʌɪˈkləpiːz | ) Greek Mythology a member of a race of savage one-eyed giants. In the Odyssey, Odysseus escaped death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus. 2 ( cyclops ) a minute predatory freshwater crustacean which has a cylindrical body with a single central eye. ●Genus Cyclops and other genera, order Cyclopoida. ORIGIN via Latin from Greek Kuklōps, literally ‘round-eyed ’, from kuklos ‘circle ’ + ōps ‘eye ’.
Duden Dictionary
Cyclops
Cy c lops, Cy clops Substantiv, maskulin , der |C y clops |der Cyclops; Genitiv: des Cyclops, Plural: die Cyclopiden griechisch-lateinisch niederer Krebs
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