different between agonism vs agon

English

Etymology

agon +? -ism, from Latin ag?n, from Ancient Greek ???? (ag?n, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.???n?.z?m/

Noun

agonism (plural agonisms)

1. Competitive struggle (especially political).
2. (biochemistry) The relationship between an agonist and a receptor.

Related terms

• antagonism
• agonist
• coagonism

Translations

Anagrams

• Amigons, Gaminos, Manigos

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