aeon
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See also: æon
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Noun
[edit]aeon (plural aeons)
- (Australia, New Zealand, British) Alternative spelling of eon
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas'):
- When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.
- (Gnosticism) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
- (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, eternity”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.oːn/, [ˈäe̯oːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.on/, [ˈɛːon]
Noun
[edit]aeōn m (genitive aeōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) age, eternity
- (Late Latin) one of the Gnostic Aeons
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aeōn | aeōnēs |
Genitive | aeōnis | aeōnum |
Dative | aeōnī | aeōnibus |
Accusative | aeōnem | aeōnēs |
Ablative | aeōne | aeōnibus |
Vocative | aeōn | aeōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “aeon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aeon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aeon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aeon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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