Corydon

See also: Croydon

Translingual

Corydon sumatranus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”).

Proper noun

Corydon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Eurylaimidae – the single species Corydon sumatranus (dusky broadbill), of South East Asia.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Corydon sumatranus (species)

References

• Dusky Broadbill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Corydon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Corydon at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Corydon at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”).

Proper noun

Corydon

1. (literary) A male given name from Greek, notably used as a stock name for a shepherd in pastorals, in particular a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in Virgil's Eclogues.
   • 1994, Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics‎^[1], page 92:

     They give voice to Corydon′s passion; they confront in their own culture the constraints that hedge his passion in.

   • 2006, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization‎^[2], page 92:

     Byron shocked regency England by citing it^{[Virgil's second eclogue]} in the opening canto of Don Juan, and Andre Gide gave the title Corydon to the controversial defense of homosexuality he published in 1924.
     Virgil depicts Corydon’s passion with psychological realism and a touch of wry irony.

   • 2008, Bernard F. Dick, Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty‎^[3], page 18:

     The harlequinade ceases for the moment, and a two-character tragedy begins with the shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, whose names derive from ancient pastoral poetry.

2. A place name used for several towns in the United States.
   1. A town, the county seat of Harrison County, Indiana, also located in Harrison Township.
   2. A small city, the county seat of Wayne County, Iowa.
   3. A town in Henderson County, Kentucky.

Related terms

• Corydon Township

Anagrams

• Croydon, croydon