"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], αἰῶνε [dual, nominative], οἱ αἰῶνες [nominative, plural], τοῦ αἰῶνος [genitive, singular], αἰώνοιν [dual, genitive], αἰώνων [genitive, plural], τῷ αἰῶνῐ [dative, singular], αἰώνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς αἰῶσῐ [dative, plural], αἰῶσῐν [dative, plural], toîs aiôsĭ [dative, plural], toîs aiôsĭn [dative, plural], τὸν αἰῶνᾰ [accusative, singular], αἰῶνε [accusative, dual], τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς [accusative, plural], αἰών [singular, vocative], αἰῶνε [dual, vocative], αἰῶνες [plural, vocative]
  1. lifetime, life
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-nXxCq0wj
  2. generation, race
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-LnZc--Zk
  3. an undefined, relatively long period of time
    (an) eon, (an) epoch, (an) age
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-VpEuzueV 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: 2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 0 43 43 1 1 0 0 0 9 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0
  4. an undefined, relatively long period of time
    (as countable things): (an) eternity, (a) perpetuity
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-b8p91Wgx 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: 2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 0 43 43 1 1 0 0 0 9 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0
  5. forever (nominal sense, for adverbial sense see ἀεί)
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-NAzvSc8J Categories (other): Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5
  6. remote past
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-1xHQTjr7 Categories (other): Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5
  7. the current world, current age
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-3Pc0T0KD
  8. world, space
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-fyyfCdid
  9. very long stretch of time ahead
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-SS08KCrF
  10. a world to come, a future age
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-uH8BQmpE Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0
  11. (Judaism & Christianity) messianic age
    Sense id: en-αἰών-grc-noun-s9z6A0YG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: καιρός (kairós), χρόνος (khrónos) Derived forms: αἰώνιος (aiṓnios), εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn)
Categories (other): Calendar Disambiguation of Calendar: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "grc",
      "name": "Calendar",
      "orig": "grc:Calendar",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "aiṓnios",
      "word": "αἰώνιος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn",
      "word": "εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων"
    }
  ],
  "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\nSpanish: eón\nFrench: éon\nItalian: eone\n→ English: eon, aeon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\nSpanish: eón\nFrench: éon\nItalian: eone\n→ English: eon, aeon"
    },
    {
      "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": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "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": "αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰώνων",
      "roman": "aiṓnōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ αἰῶνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi aiônĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς αἰῶσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν αἰῶνᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn aiônă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs aiônăs",
      "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": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then glad at his coming was Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and spake to him a piteous word:“Son of Priam, suffer me not to lie here a prey to the Danaans, but bear me aid; thereafter, if need be, let life depart from me in your city, seeing it might not be that I should return home to mine own native land to make glad my dear wife and infant son.”",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.685",
          "roman": "khárē d’ ára hoi prosiónti Sarpēdṑn Diòs huiós, épos d’ olophudnòn éeipe: ‘Priamídē, mḕ dḗ me hélōr Danaoîsin eásēis keîsthai, all’ epámunon: épeitá me kaì lípoi aiṑn en pólei humetérēi, epeì ouk ár’ émellon égōge nostḗsas oîkon dè phílēn es patrída gaîan euphranéein álokhón te phílēn kaì nḗpion huión.",
          "text": "χάρη δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ προσιόντι Σαρπηδὼν Διὸς υἱός, ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφυδνὸν ἔειπε: ‘Πριαμίδη, μὴ δή με ἕλωρ Δαναοῖσιν ἐάσῃς κεῖσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπάμυνον: ἔπειτά με καὶ λίποι αἰὼν ἐν πόλει ὑμετέρῃ, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλον ἔγωγε νοστήσας οἶκον δὲ φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν εὐφρανέειν ἄλοχόν τε φίλην καὶ νήπιον υἱόν."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lifetime, life"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-nXxCq0wj",
      "links": [
        [
          "lifetime",
          "lifetime"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "generation, race"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-LnZc--Zk",
      "links": [
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 0 43 43 1 1 0 0 0 9 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "eon, (an) epoch, (an) age"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-VpEuzueV",
      "links": [
        [
          "eon",
          "eon"
        ],
        [
          "epoch",
          "epoch"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "an",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(an) eon, (an) epoch, (an) age"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 0 43 43 1 1 0 0 0 9 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(an) eternity, (a) perpetuity"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-b8p91Wgx",
      "links": [
        [
          "countable",
          "countable"
        ],
        [
          "eternity",
          "eternity"
        ],
        [
          "perpetuity",
          "perpetuity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(as countable things): (an) eternity, (a) perpetuity"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "as countable things"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forever (nominal sense, for adverbial sense see ἀεί)"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-NAzvSc8J",
      "links": [
        [
          "forever",
          "forever"
        ],
        [
          "ἀεί",
          "ἀεί"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "remote past"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-1xHQTjr7"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the current world, current age"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-3Pc0T0KD"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "world, space"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-fyyfCdid",
      "links": [
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "very long stretch of time ahead"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-SS08KCrF"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 29 29 5 8 2 2 3 17 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 20 20 11 15 3 3 5 13 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 0 37 37 1 1 0 0 0 21 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a world to come, a future age"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-uH8BQmpE"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "messianic age"
      ],
      "id": "en-αἰών-grc-noun-s9z6A0YG",
      "links": [
        [
          "Judaism",
          "Judaism"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Judaism & Christianity",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Judaism & Christianity) messianic age"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "kairós",
      "word": "καιρός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 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"
    },
    {
      "roman": "eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn",
      "word": "εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων"
    }
  ],
  "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\nSpanish: eón\nFrench: éon\nItalian: eone\n→ English: eon, aeon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: æon, aeon\nSpanish: eón\nFrench: éon\nItalian: eone\n→ English: eon, aeon"
    },
    {
      "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": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "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": "αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰώνων",
      "roman": "aiṓnōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ αἰῶνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi aiônĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰώνοιν",
      "roman": "aiṓnoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς αἰῶσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs aiôsĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν αἰῶνᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn aiônă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰῶνε",
      "roman": "aiône",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs aiônăs",
      "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then glad at his coming was Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and spake to him a piteous word:“Son of Priam, suffer me not to lie here a prey to the Danaans, but bear me aid; thereafter, if need be, let life depart from me in your city, seeing it might not be that I should return home to mine own native land to make glad my dear wife and infant son.”",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.685",
          "roman": "khárē d’ ára hoi prosiónti Sarpēdṑn Diòs huiós, épos d’ olophudnòn éeipe: ‘Priamídē, mḕ dḗ me hélōr Danaoîsin eásēis keîsthai, all’ epámunon: épeitá me kaì lípoi aiṑn en pólei humetérēi, epeì ouk ár’ émellon égōge nostḗsas oîkon dè phílēn es patrída gaîan euphranéein álokhón te phílēn kaì nḗpion huión.",
          "text": "χάρη δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ προσιόντι Σαρπηδὼν Διὸς υἱός, ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφυδνὸν ἔειπε: ‘Πριαμίδη, μὴ δή με ἕλωρ Δαναοῖσιν ἐάσῃς κεῖσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπάμυνον: ἔπειτά με καὶ λίποι αἰὼν ἐν πόλει ὑμετέρῃ, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλον ἔγωγε νοστήσας οἶκον δὲ φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν εὐφρανέειν ἄλοχόν τε φίλην καὶ νήπιον υἱόν."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lifetime, life"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lifetime",
          "lifetime"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "generation, race"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "eon, (an) epoch, (an) age"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eon",
          "eon"
        ],
        [
          "epoch",
          "epoch"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "an",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(an) eon, (an) epoch, (an) age"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(an) eternity, (a) perpetuity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "countable",
          "countable"
        ],
        [
          "eternity",
          "eternity"
        ],
        [
          "perpetuity",
          "perpetuity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "an undefined, relatively long period of time",
        "(as countable things): (an) eternity, (a) perpetuity"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "as countable things"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "forever (nominal sense, for adverbial sense see ἀεί)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forever",
          "forever"
        ],
        [
          "ἀεί",
          "ἀεί"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "remote past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the current world, current age"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "world, space"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "very long stretch of time ahead"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a world to come, a future age"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "messianic age"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Judaism",
          "Judaism"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Judaism & Christianity",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Judaism & Christianity) messianic age"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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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