Icarus

From Latin Īcarus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪkəɹəs/

Icarus

1. (Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.

• Icaria
• Icarian

• cauris, curias

Borrowed from Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.kaː.rʏs/
• Hyphenation: Ica‧rus

Icarus m

1. Icarus (Greek mythological figure whose wings disintegrated, drowned in the Aegean)

• icarusblauwtje

From Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ka.rus/, [ˈiː.ka.rʊs]

Īcarus m (genitive Īcarī); second declension

1. Icarus

Second declension.

• Īcaria
• Īcariotēs
• Īcarius

• Icarus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Icarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette