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Posidon
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔˈsiː.doːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [poˈs̬iː.don]
Proper noun
Posīdōn m sg (genitive Posīdōnis); third declension
- (Greek mythology, New Latin) Poseidon
- 1840, Johannes Franz, Elementa epigraphices Graecae, →OCLC, page 54:
- Atque ex descriptione Prokeschii templum Posidonis Theraei in promontorio supparem situm habuit in speluncâ; cuius in petrae fragminibus nomina insculpta sunt innumerabilia.
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- 1890, Johannes Teufer, De Homero in apophthegmatis usurpato, →OCLC, page 11:
- […] injuria autem Droysenius verba γαιήοχε κυανοχαῖτα, quae omnino non significant premit, cum ne tunc quidem condicio rerum talis fuerit, ut Aegyptii ipsi Antigonum Posidonem appellaverint.
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- 1912, Josephus Cserép, De Pelasgis Etruscisque quid fabulis heroicis ac priscis nominibus doceamur, →OCLC, page 14:
- Zeus et Posidon fratres in fabula heroica sunt; sed initio iidem fuisse videntur.
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Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
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