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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Use as a proper noun of the masculine forms of φαίνων (phaínōn, “shining”), the present active participle of φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰǎi̯.nɔːn/ → /ˈɸɛ.non/ → /ˈfe.non/
Proper noun
Φαίνων • (Phaínōn) m (genitive Φαίνοντος); third declension
- the planet Saturn (literally “the shiner”)
Declension
Descendants
References
- “Φαίνων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers