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paeon

English

Noun

paeon (plural paeons)

  1. (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 ????? (pai?n), variant of ????? (paián).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?pae?.o?n/, [?päe?o?n]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pe.on/, [?p???n]

Noun

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

  1. (poetry, prosody) paeon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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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preon

English

Etymology

pre- +? -on, coined in 1974 by Jogesh Pati and Abdus Salam.

Noun

preon (plural preons)

  1. (physics) A hypothetical point-like particle, supposed to be a subcomponent of quarks and leptons.

Translations

See also

  • spreon
  • subquark

Anagrams

  • Peron, prone

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