different between agon vs gon

English

Etymology

From Latin ag?n, from Ancient Greek ???? (ag?n, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æ.???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.?o?n/

Noun

agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)

1. (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
2. (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
   • March 23, 1986, Harold Bloom, "FREUD, THE GREATEST MODERN WRITER", in the New York Times

     Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.

3. (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
4. (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.

   Synonym: queen's guard

Related terms

• agony
• agonism
• antagonism
• antagonist
• protagonism
• protagonist

Translations

Anagrams

• Gano, Gaon, Goan, Nago, Noga, gaon, goan

Esperanto

Noun

agon

1. accusative singular of ago

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (ag?n, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.?o?n/, [?ä?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.?on/, [?????n]

Noun

ag?n m (genitive ag?nis); third declension

1. a contest

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• agon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• agon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• agon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary

Portuguese

Noun

agon m (plural agons or agones)

1. agon (a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French argon, from English argon, from New Latin argon, from Ancient Greek ????? (argón).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?a??? ??w??m??], [?a?k??? ??w??m??], [?a?k???? ??w??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a??? ??w??m??], [?a?k???? ??w??m??], [?a?k???? ??w??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a??? ??w??m??], [?a?k??? ??w??m??], [?a?k???? ??w??m??]
• Phonetic: a gông, ác gông, ?c gông

Noun

agon

1. argon

Translingual

Symbol

gon

1. (ISO symbol) gradian

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.

Contraction

gon

1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of gonna

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (g?nía, “angle”)

Noun

gon (plural gons)

1. (geometry, trigonometry) One hundredth of a right angle; a gradian.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping.

Noun

gon (plural gons)

1. (rail transport) Abbreviation of gondola car.

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

Breton

Noun

gon

1. Soft mutation of kon.

Finnish

Noun

gon

1. Genitive singular form of go.

Japanese

Romanization

gon

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English g?n, from Proto-West Germanic *g?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?n?, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijan?, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ?od-.

Alternative forms

• (Northern ME) gan, ga
• goo, goon, go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gon

2. to go

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: go
  • Northumbrian: gan
• Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
• Yola: goe

References

• “g?n, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English g?n, ?eg?n, past participle of g?n (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *g?naz, past participle of *g?n? (“to go”); equivalent to gon +? -en.

Alternative forms

• gone, igon, gan, ?egan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gon

2. past participle of gon (“to go”)

Descendants

• English: gone
• Scots: gane
• Yola: ee-go

Etymology 3

From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.

Noun

gon

1. Alternative form of gunne

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gonô, from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“to strike, kill”).

Verb

gon (past ghon, future gonaidh, verbal noun gonadh, past participle gonte)

1. hurt, prick, wound

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English gun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?on/

Noun

gon

1. gun

Teojomulco Chatino

Etymology

Cognate with Tataltepec Chatino ncu? (“tortoise”), Western Highland Chatino nkuun? (“tortoise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nkõ/, [??õ]

Noun

gon

1. armadillo

References

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016) , “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics?^[1], page [5]