noun, masculine/siɲ/plural: cygnes
cygne is masculine in French.
swan
Related: chant du cygne, cygne noir
Inherited from Old French cisne, cine, from Late Latin cicinus, from Latin cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos). The modern spelling is in imitation of the Latin variant form cygnus, and the modern pronunciation is a spelling-pronunciation based on that.