cygnet

See also: Cygnet

English

Black Swan with cygnet

Male Mute Swan with cygnets

Trumpeter Swan with half-grown cygnet

Etymology

From Middle English cignet, signet, from Anglo-Norman cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne (“swan”), from Latin cygnus, cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡ.nɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: signet

Noun

cygnet (plural cygnets)

1. The young of a swan.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, King John:

     I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
     Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
     And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
     His soul and body to their lasting rest.

Synonyms

• swanling

Related terms

• cygnicide
• cygnine
• dendrocygnid

Translations

young of a swan

• Belarusian: лебедзяня́ n (ljebjedzjanjá), лебедзянё n (ljebjedzjanjó)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} млад лебед (mlad lebed)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小天鵝 / 小天鹅 (zh) (xiǎotiān'é), 幼天鵝 / 幼天鹅 (yòutiān'é)

• Danish: svaneunge (da) c
• Dutch: zwanenjong (nl) n
• Esperanto: cignido
• Finnish: joutsenenpoikanen
• French: cygneau (fr) m, jeune cygne m, petit du cygne m
• German: Schwanenjunges n, Schwanenküken n, Schwanenbaby n, Schwanenkind n, Schwänchen n, Schwänlein n, Jungschwan n, junger Schwan m
• Greek: κυκνίσκος m (kyknískos)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cigno giovane m
• Latin: pullus cycneus m
• Lithuanian: gulbiukas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svaneunge m

  Nynorsk: svaneunge m

• Polish: łabędziątko (pl) n, łabędzię n
• Portuguese: filhote de cisne m
• Romanian: pui de lebădă m
• Russian: лебедёнок (ru) m (lebedjónok)
• Spanish: pollo (de cisne) m
• Ukrainian: лебедя́ n (lebedjá), лебедя́тко n (lebedjátko)
• Volapük: svanül, hisvanül (male), jisvanül (female), svan yunik, hisvan yunik (male), jisvan yunik (female)