paeon

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English

Noun

paeon (plural paeons)

  1. (poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιών (paiṓn), variant of παιάν (paián).

Pronunciation

Noun

paeōn m (genitive paeōnis); third declension

  1. (poetry, prosody) paeon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative paeōn paeōnēs
genitive paeōnis paeōnum
dative paeōnī paeōnibus
accusative paeōnem paeōnēs
ablative paeōne paeōnibus
vocative paeōn paeōnēs

Descendants

  • → English: paeon
  • Italian: peone

References

  • “paeon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paeon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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