Translingual

Etymology

From Latin Phaethon, from Ancient Greek Φαέθων ‎(Phaéthōn).

Proper noun

Phaethon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phaethontidae – tropicbirds.

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

English

Proper noun

Phaethon

1. Alternative form of Phaëthon

Latin

Alternative forms

• Phaëtōn

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Φᾰέθων ‎(Phaéthōn)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.e.tʰoːn/, [ˈpʰa.ɛ.tʰoːn]

Proper noun

Phaëthōn m ‎(genitive Phaëthontis or Phaëthontos); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Phaëthon (son of Helios and Clymene, who, having obtained from his father permission to drive the sun’s chariot for a day, lost control of the steeds, and was struck down by a thunderbolt of Zeus, to prevent his setting the earth on fire)
2. (poetic) a divine epithet of the Sun
3. Synonym of Iuppiter ‎(“the planet Jupiter”)
4. Synonym of Saturnus ‎(“the planet Saturn”)

Declension

Third declension.

Related terms

See also

• Phaenōn

Descendants

References

• Phăĕthon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Phăĕthōn”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,170/1.
• “Phaëthōn” on page 1,371 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)