Xenophon

See also: Xénophon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν (Xenophôn).

Proper noun

Xenophon

1. Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.

Translations

historian and philosopher

• Armenian: Քսենոփոն (Kʻsenopʻon)
• Greek:

  Ancient:

• Irish: Seineafón m
• Italian: Senofonte m
• Japanese: クセノポーン (kusenopōn), クセノポン (kusenopon)
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• Latin: Xenophōn m
• Polish: Ksenofont m
• Russian: Ксенофонт (ru) m (Ksenofont)
• Slovak: Xenofón m
• Spanish: Jenofonte
• Swedish: Xenofon

Further reading

• “Xenophon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν (Xenophôn).

Alternative forms

• Xenofōn (Vulgate spelling)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.no.pʰoːn/, [ˈks̠ɛnɔpʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.no.fon/, [ˈksɛːnofon]

Proper noun

Xenophōn m sg (genitive Xenophōntis); third declension

1. Xenophon (a celebrated Greek historian and philosopher, born 445 B.C., a pupil of Socrates and a leader of the Greeks in the army of Cyrus the younger)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Xenophōn
Genitive	Xenophōntis
Dative	Xenophōntī
Accusative	Xenophōntem
Ablative	Xenophōnte
Vocative	Xenophōn

Related terms

• Xenophontēus
• Xenophontīus

References

• “Xĕnŏphon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Xĕnŏphōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,699/2.
• “Xenophon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Xenophon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Xenophon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Xenophōn” on page 2,124/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Xenophon (scriptor) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la