"αἰών" meaning in Ancient Greek

See αἰών in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/, /ɛˈon/, /eˈon/, /ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ɛˈon/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ɛˈon/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /eˈon/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /eˈon/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
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. Etymology templates: {{root|grc|ine-pro|*h₂ey-|id=life}}, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*h₂eyu-||vital force, life, long life, eternity}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life, long life, eternity”), {{cog|la|aevum}} Latin aevum, {{cog|en|aye}} English aye Head templates: {{grc-noun|αἰῶνος|m|third}} αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|αἰών|αἰῶνος}} Forms: aiṓn [romanization], αἰῶνος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ αἰών [nominative, singular], τὼ αἰῶνε [dual, nominative], οἱ αἰῶνες [nominative, plural], τοῦ αἰῶνος [genitive, singular], τοῖν αἰώνοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν αἰώνων [genitive, plural], τῷ αἰῶνῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν αἰώνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς αἰῶσῐ [dative, plural], αἰῶσῐν [dative, plural], toîs aiôsi [dative, plural], toîs aiôsin [dative, plural], τὸν αἰῶνᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ αἰῶνε [accusative, dual], τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς [accusative, plural], αἰών [singular, vocative], αἰῶνε [dual, vocative], αἰῶνες [plural, vocative]
  1. lifetime
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-b2ptlPtD
  2. generation
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-5mH0yTXo
  3. a long period of time, eon, epoch, age Categories (topical): Calendar
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-9P9t5~8E Disambiguation of Calendar: 19 1 59 1 20 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 3 2 89 2 4 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 8 7 64 7 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 1 93 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 96 1 1
  4. the current world
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-jNEUDNFo
  5. eternity
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-DAjA0iOv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: καιρός (kairós), χρόνος (khrónos) Derived forms: αἰώνιος (aiṓnios)

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "aiṓnios",
      "word": "αἰώνιος"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "æon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: æon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: æon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "æon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: æon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: æon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "αιώνας",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Greek: αιώνας (aiónas)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Greek: αιώνας (aiónas)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "æon",
            "3": "aeon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\n→ English: eon, aeon\n→ Spanish: eón\n→ French: éon\n→ Portuguese: éon\n→ Italian: eone",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\n→ English: eon, aeon\n→ Spanish: eón\n→ French: éon\n→ Portuguese: éon\n→ Italian: eone"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "эо́н",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: эо́н (eón)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: эо́н (eón)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ey-",
        "id": "life"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂eyu-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "vital force, life, long life, eternity"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life, long life, eternity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aevum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aevum",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "aye"
      },
      "expansion": "English aye",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aiṓn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ αἰών",
      "roman": "ho aiṓn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "tṑ aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ αἰῶνες",
      "roman": "hoi aiônes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ αἰῶνος",
      "roman": "toû aiônos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν αἰώνων",
      "roman": "tôn aiṓnōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ αἰῶνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi aiôni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς αἰῶσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν αἰῶνᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn aiôna",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "tṑ aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs aiônas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰών",
      "roman": "aiṓn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνες",
      "roman": "aiônes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰῶνος",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰών",
        "2": "αἰῶνος"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lifetime"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-b2ptlPtD",
      "links": [
        [
          "lifetime",
          "lifetime"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "generation"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-5mH0yTXo",
      "links": [
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 2 89 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 7 64 7 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 1 93 1 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 1 96 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 1 59 1 20",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Calendar",
          "orig": "grc:Calendar",
          "parents": [
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a long period of time, eon, epoch, age"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-9P9t5~8E",
      "links": [
        [
          "eon",
          "eon"
        ],
        [
          "epoch",
          "epoch"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the current world"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-jNEUDNFo"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "eternity"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-DAjA0iOv"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "kairós",
      "word": "καιρός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "khrónos",
      "word": "χρόνος"
    }
  ],
  "word": "αἰών"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Calendar"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "aiṓnios",
      "word": "αἰώνιος"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "æon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: æon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: æon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "æon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: æon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: æon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "αιώνας",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Greek: αιώνας (aiónas)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Greek: αιώνας (aiónas)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "æon",
            "3": "aeon",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\n→ English: eon, aeon\n→ Spanish: eón\n→ French: éon\n→ Portuguese: éon\n→ Italian: eone",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\n→ English: eon, aeon\n→ Spanish: eón\n→ French: éon\n→ Portuguese: éon\n→ Italian: eone"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "эо́н",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: эо́н (eón)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: эо́н (eón)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ey-",
        "id": "life"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂eyu-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "vital force, life, long life, eternity"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life, long life, eternity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aevum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aevum",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "aye"
      },
      "expansion": "English aye",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aiṓn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ αἰών",
      "roman": "ho aiṓn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "tṑ aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ αἰῶνες",
      "roman": "hoi aiônes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ αἰῶνος",
      "roman": "toû aiônos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν αἰώνων",
      "roman": "tôn aiṓnōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ αἰῶνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi aiôni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς αἰῶσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν αἰῶνᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn aiôna",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "tṑ aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs aiônas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰών",
      "roman": "aiṓn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνες",
      "roman": "aiônes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰῶνος",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰών",
        "2": "αἰῶνος"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lifetime"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lifetime",
          "lifetime"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "generation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a long period of time, eon, epoch, age"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eon",
          "eon"
        ],
        [
          "epoch",
          "epoch"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the current world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "eternity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.ɔ̌ːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "kairós",
      "word": "καιρός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "khrónos",
      "word": "χρόνος"
    }
  ],
  "word": "αἰών"
}

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