paeon

English

Noun

paeon (plural paeons)

(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) IPA^(key): /ˈpae̯.oːn/, [ˈpäe̯oːn]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.on/, [ˈpɛːon]

Noun

paeōn m (genitive paeōnis); third declension

(poetry, prosody) paeon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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.

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