different between cycloptic vs cyclops

English

Etymology

Derived from cyclops (one eye)

Adjective

cycloptic (comparative more cycloptic, superlative most cycloptic)

1. One-eyed.
2. Approaching or viewing a situation with a single perspective.
   • 1981. David LeRoy Miller. Christs: Meditations on Archetypal Images in Christian Theology Seabury Press 1981. p. 38.

     Such insightful feeling by way of cycloptic vision may accompany an experience...

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cyclops, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Kúkl?ps, “Cyclops”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: s?'kl?ps, IPA^(key): /?sa??kl?ps/

Noun

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
2. A one-eyed creature of any species.
3. (derogatory) A person with only one working eye.
4. (zoology) Any copepod in the genus Cyclops.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (Kúkl?ps, “Cyclops”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ky.klo?ps/, [?k?k??o?ps?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?ky.klops/, [?k?klops]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??i.klops/, [?t??i?kl?ps]

Noun

cycl?ps m (genitive cycl?pis); third declension

1. A cyclops; a one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.

Declension

Third-declension noun.