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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χᾰ́ρων (khárōn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰá.rɔːn/ → /ˈxa.ron/ → /ˈxa.ron/
Proper noun
Χᾰ́ρων • (Khárōn) m (genitive Χᾰ́ροντος); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Charon
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Χάρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006
- Χάρων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette