Cyril

English

Etymology

Via Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios, “lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəl/
• enPR: sīr-əl IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪɹəl/ (Philippines, colloquial)
• Rhymes: -ɪɹəl, (Philippines) -aɪɹəl

Proper noun

Cyril

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.
   • 1954, P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions, Herbert Jenkins, published 1957, page 35:

     Boxers, too, not so long ago a somewhat uncouth section of the community who were seldom if ever mistaken for members of the Vere de Vere family, have taken on a polish which makes their society a pleasure. They have names like Cyril and Percy and Clarence and live up to them.

Derived terms

• Cyrillic
• JCB

Descendants

• → Cebuano: Cyril
• → Japanese: シリル (Shiriru)
• → Korean: 시릴 (Siril)

Translations

male given name

• Akkadian: 𒆪𒊒𒅋𒇻𒇒𒋢 (ku-ru-il-lu-su)
• Arabic: كِيرُلُس m (kirulus), كِيرِيل (kiril), سِيرِيل (siril)
• Armenian: Կյուրեղ (Kyureġ)
• Belarusian: Кіры́л m (Kirýl)
• Bulgarian: Кири́л m (Kiríl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西里爾 (zh) (Xīlǐ'ěr), 基里爾 (Jīlǐ'ěr)

• Corsican: Cirillu m
• Czech: Cyril (cs) m
• Dutch: Cyriel (nl) m
• French: Cyrille (fr), Cyril (fr)
• Georgian: კირილე (ḳirile)
• Greek: Κύριλλος (el) m (Kýrillos)
• Hungarian: Cirill (hu)
• Ingrian: Kirila
• Italian: Cirillo (it) m
• Japanese: キリル (Kiriru), シリル (Shiriru)
• Korean: 키릴 (Kiril), 시릴 (Siril)
• Latvian: Kirils m
• Lithuanian: Kirilas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Кирил (mk) m (Kiril)
• Maltese: Ċirillu m
• Polish: Cyryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cirilo m
• Romanian: Chiril m
• Russian: Кири́лл (ru) m (Kiríll), Си́рил (ru) m (Síril)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кирил m

  Roman: Kiril m

• Sicilian: Ciriḍḍu m
• Skolt Sami: Ǩiurrâl
• Slovak: Cyril m
• Spanish: Cirilo m
• Ukrainian: Кири́ло m (Kyrýlo)

Kirill — see Kirill

See also

• Cyrillus
• Cyryl
• Kiril
• Kirill
• Kiryl
• Kyril
• Kyrill
• Kyrylo

 

Anagrams

• Lyric, lyric

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Cyril, from Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Cy‧ril

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾil/, [ˈs̪i.ɾ̪ɪl̪]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsajɾil/, [ˈs̪aɪ̯.ɾ̪ɪl̪] (colloquial, nonstandard)

Proper noun

Cyril

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Cyril

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪrɪl]

Proper noun

Cyril m anim

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Cyril

Declension

Declension of Cyril (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Cyril	Cyrilové
genitive	Cyrila	Cyrilů
dative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilům
accusative	Cyrila	Cyrily
vocative	Cyrile	Cyrilové
locative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilech
instrumental	Cyrilem	Cyrily

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁil/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Cyril m

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Cyrille

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡siril]

Proper noun

Cyril m anim (genitive singular Cyrila, nominative plural Cyrilovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Cyril

Declension

Declension of Cyril

	singular	plural
nominative	Cyril	Cyrilovia
genitive	Cyrila	Cyrilov
dative	Cyrilovi	Cyrilom
accusative	Cyrila	Cyrilov
locative	Cyrilovi	Cyriloch
instrumental	Cyrilom	Cyrilmi

Derived terms

• Cyrilko
• Cyrko
• Cyro
• Cyruško

 

Further reading

• “Cyril”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024