paeon

English

Noun

paeon (plural paeons)

1. (poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.

Related terms

• paean

Anagrams

• -pnoea, Epona, Paone, Peano, Poean

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιών (paiṓn), variant of παιάν (paián).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpae̯.oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.on]

Noun

paeōn m (genitive paeōnis); third declension

1. (poetry, prosody) paeon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	paeōn	paeōnēs
genitive	paeōnis	paeōnum
dative	paeōnī	paeōnibus
accusative	paeōnem	paeōnēs
ablative	paeōne	paeōnibus
vocative	paeōn	paeōnēs

Descendants

• → English: paeon
• Italian: peone

References

• “paeon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paeon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.