Actaeon

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Actaeon n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family  – a synonym of , the salt marsh snails.

Hyponyms

• (genus): ()

References

• Microtralia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Microtralia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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English

Actaeon Changed into a Stag (Dianae aspectu Actaeon in cervum), engraving by Antonio Tempesta

Etymology

From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ækˈtiːən/, /ækˈtiːɒn/, /ækˈteɪən/, /ækˈteɪɒn/, /ˈæktɪən/

Proper noun

Actaeon

1. (Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
   • 1979, Eric S. Rabkin, Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62:

     Amid so much prosperity, it was one of his grandsons, Actaeon, who first brought distress to Cadmus, when antlers, foreign to his human shape, sprouted from the youth's forehead, and his hounds gorged themselves on their master's blood.

Related terms

• Acteon

Further reading

• Actaeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Diana and Actaeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈtae̯.oːn/, [äkˈt̪äe̯oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /akˈte.on/, [äkˈt̪ɛːon]

Proper noun

Actaeōn m sg (genitive Actaeonis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Actaeon (grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis).

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Actaeōn
genitive	Actaeonis
dative	Actaeonī
accusative	Actaeona
ablative	Actaeone
vocative	Actaeōn

References

• “Actaeōn”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Actæōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.