Cleophon

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek κλέος (kléos)

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)

Ancient Greek Κλεοφῶν (Kleophôn)bor.

Latin Cleophōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλεοφῶν (Kleophôn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫe.ɔ.pʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklɛː.o.fon]

Proper noun

Cleophōn m sg (genitive Cleophōntis); third declension

1. An Athenian demagogue and statesman

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Cleophōn
genitive	Cleophōntis
dative	Cleophōntī
accusative	Cleophōntem
ablative	Cleophōnte
vocative	Cleophōn

Descendants

• Italian: Cleofonte

References

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