Phaethon

From Latin Phaethon, from Ancient Greek Φαέθων (Phaéthōn).

Phaethon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phaethontidae – tropicbirds.

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

• Tropicbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phaethon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Phaethon

1. Alternative form of Phaëthon
2. (astronomy) the asteroid Phaethon

• Phaëtōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φᾰέθων (Phaéthōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.e.tʰoːn/, [ˈpʰa.ɛ.tʰoːn]

Phaëthōn m sg (genitive Phaëthontis or Phaëthontos); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Phaëthon (son of Helios and Clymene, who, having obtained from his father permission to drive the sun’s chariot for a day, lost control of the steeds, and was struck down by a thunderbolt of Zeus, to prevent his setting the earth on fire)
2. (poetic) a divine epithet of the Sun
3. Synonym of Iuppiter (“the planet Jupiter”)
4. Synonym of Saturnus (“the planet Saturn”)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Phaenōn

• Phăĕthon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phăĕthōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,170/1
• “Phaëthōn” on page 1,371 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)