Xenophon

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν (Xenophôn).

Xenophon

1. Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.

• “Xenophon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Xenophon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Xenofōn (Vulgate spelling)

From the Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν (Xenophôn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.no.pʰoːn/, [ˈks̠ɛnɔpʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.no.fon/, [ˈksɛːnofon]

Xenophōn m sg (genitive Xenophōntis); third declension

1. Xenophon (a celebrated Greek historian and philosopher, born 445 B.C., a pupil of Socrates and a leader of the Greeks in the army of Cyrus the younger)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Xenophontēus
• Xenophontīus

• “Xĕnŏphon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Xĕnŏphōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,699/2.
• “Xenophon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “Xenophon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Xenophon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Xenophōn” on page 2,124/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Xenophon (scriptor) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la