αἰών
See also: Αἰών
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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɛˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈon/
Noun
αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension
- lifetime
- generation
- a long period of time, eon, epoch, age
- the current world
- eternity
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ αἰών ho aiṓn |
τὼ αἰῶνε tṑ aiône |
οἱ αἰῶνες hoi aiônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ αἰῶνος toû aiônos |
τοῖν αἰώνοιν toîn aiṓnoin |
τῶν αἰώνων tôn aiṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ αἰῶνῐ tôi aiôni |
τοῖν αἰώνοιν toîn aiṓnoin |
τοῖς αἰῶσῐ / αἰῶσῐν toîs aiôsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν αἰῶνᾰ tòn aiôna |
τὼ αἰῶνε tṑ aiône |
τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς toùs aiônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | αἰών aiṓn |
αἰῶνε aiône |
αἰῶνες aiônes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αἰώνιος (aiṓnios)
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 (2006–2019)
- αἰών in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G165 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- 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.
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