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.
   • 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and their Meaning, New York: G.E. Stechert, page 380:

     An early Grecian gem shows three nude figures, hand in hand, standing on the head of the Bull, one pointing to seven stars in line over the back, which Landseer referred to the Hyades.

   • 1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy Association, volume 108, number 1, page 24, column 2:

     The Bull was the Bull of Heaven to the Sumerians. It marked the spring equinox and the start of the new year. It's head has always been the Hyades, including Aldebaran.

• 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.des]

Hyades f pl (genitive Hyadum); third declension

1. the Hyades
   • 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.