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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Posīdōn m sg (genitive Posīdōnis); third declension
- (Greek mythology, New Latin) Poseidon
1840, Johannes Franz, Elementa epigraphices Graecae, →OCLC, page 54:Atque ex descriptione Prokeschii templum Posidonis Theraei in promontorio supparem situm habuit in speluncâ; cuius in petrae fragminibus nomina insculpta sunt innumerabilia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1890, Johannes Teufer, De Homero in apophthegmatis usurpato, →OCLC, page 11:[…] injuria autem Droysenius verba γαιήοχε κυανοχαῖτα, quae omnino non significant premit, cum ne tunc quidem condicio rerum talis fuerit, ut Aegyptii ipsi Antigonum Posidonem appellaverint.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1912, Josephus Cserép, De Pelasgis Etruscisque quid fabulis heroicis ac priscis nominibus doceamur, →OCLC, page 14:Zeus et Posidon fratres in fabula heroica sunt; sed initio iidem fuisse videntur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.