αἰών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From earlier αἰϝών (aiwṓn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life, long life, eternity”), whence also ἀεί (aeí, “always”). Cognate with Latin aevum, English aye.

Pronunciation

Noun

αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension

1. lifetime
2. generation
3. a long period of time, eon, epoch, age
4. the current world
5. eternity

Inflection

Synonyms

• καιρός (kairós)
• χρόνος (khrónos)

Derived terms

• αἰώνιος (aiṓnios)

Descendants

References

• “αἰών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αἰών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αἰών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αἰών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἰών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αἰών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “αἰών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G165 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• αἰών in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • age idem, page 18.
  • century idem, page 122.
  • life idem, page 489.
  • lifetime idem, page 490.
  • term idem, page 862.
  • time idem, page 875.