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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴ̄λιον (Í̄lion, “Ilium, Troy”).
Proper noun
Ilion m
- (Dantesque) Alternative form of Ilio (“Ilium, Troy”)
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto
figliuol d’Anchise che venne di Troia,
poi che ’l superbo Ilïón fu combusto.- A Poet was I, and I sang that just
son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy,
after that Ilion the superb was burned.