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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
- IPA(key): /ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/ → /ɛˈon/ → /eˈon/
Noun
αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension
- lifetime
- generation
- a long period of time, eon, epoch, age
- the current world
- eternity
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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.