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English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kósmos, “world, universe”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: k?z'm?s, IPA^(key): /?k?z.m?s/
• (US) enPR: k?z'm?s, IPA^(key): /?k?z.mo?s/

Noun

cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmoses or cosmoi)

1. The universe.
2. An ordered, harmonious whole.

Related terms

• cosmetic
• cosmonaut

Translations

Etymology 2

From the genus name Cosmos.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?z.m?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?z.mo?s/, IPA^(key): /?k?z.m?s/

Wikispecies

Noun

cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmos)

1. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?z.mo?z/

Noun

cosmos

1. plural of cosmo

Anagrams

• Moscos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kósmos).

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

1. cosmos, universe

Related terms

• còsmic

Further reading

• “cosmos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cosmos” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cosmos” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cosmos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kósmos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s.mos/

Noun

cosmos m (uncountable)

1. cosmos, universe

Related terms

• cosmique

Further reading

• “cosmos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

1. Alternative form of cosmo
2. cosmos (herb of the genus Cosmos)

Romanian

Etymology

From French cosmos

Noun

cosmos n (uncountable)

1. cosmos, universe
2. outer space

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kósmos, “world, universe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kosmos/, [?koz.mos]

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

1. universe

   Synonyms: mundo, universo

2. space (area beyond the atmosphere of planets)

   Synonym: espacio

3. cosmos (herbs of the genus Cosmos)

Related terms

• cósmico
• cosmonauta

Further reading

• “cosmos” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

aeon (plural aeons)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of eon
2. (Gnosticism, preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
3. (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.

Anagrams

• eoan

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (ai?n, “age, eternity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ae?.o?n/, [?äe?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.on/, [????n]

Noun

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

1. (Late Latin) age, eternity
2. (Late Latin) the Gnostic Aeons

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• aeon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aeon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aeon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aeon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers