aeon

aeon (plural aeons)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) 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.

2. (Gnosticism, preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

• eoan

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, eternity”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.oːn/

aeōn m (genitive aeōnis); second declension

1. (Late Latin) age, eternity
2. (Late Latin) the Gnostic Aeons

Third declension.

• 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, 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