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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/ → /pɛˈon/ → /peˈon/
Noun
παιών • (paiṓn) m (genitive παιῶνος); third declension
- physician, healer
- (prosody) paeon
Declension
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Descendants
Further reading
- παιών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “παιών”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “Παιάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press