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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ly.dɔ̌ːn/ → /ka.lyˈðon/ → /ka.liˈðon/
Proper noun
Κᾰλῠδών • (Kaludṓn) f or m (genitive Κᾰλῠδῶνος); third declension
- (feminine) Calydon (an ancient city in Aetolia, Greece)
- (Greek mythology, masculine) Calydon (legendary founding king and eponym of Calydon)
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References
- “Καλυδών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Καλυδών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004