Eoan
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See also: eoan
English
[edit]Etymology
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From either of the following:
- Learned borrowing from Late Latin ēōus (“dawn; rising sun”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives). Ēōus is derived from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn, daybreak; morning; day; east”),[1][2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”).
- Eos (“Greek goddess of the dawn”) + -an. Eos is derived from Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “Greek goddess of the dawn”), from ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn, daybreak; morning; day; east”): see above.
cognates
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iːˈəʊən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /iˈoʊən/
- Rhymes: -əʊən
- Hyphenation: Eo‧an
Adjective
[edit]Eoan (not comparable) (archaic, poetic)
- Relating to the dawn.
- Synonyms: auroral, aurorean, dilucular
- Coordinate terms: vespertinal, vespertine
- 1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signatures [B4], verso – C, recto:
- VVhoſe moſt adored name incloſes, / Things abſtruſe, deep and diuine. / VVhoſe yellovv treſſes ſhine, / Bright as Eoan fire. […] Bright as Eoan fire, / O me thy Prieſt inſpire!
- 1619, Michael Drayton, “[Odes.] To the New Yeere.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 59, lines 19–21:
- Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]
- 1622 May 24 (licensing date), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 36, column 1:
- [S]he moves unto me: / how ſvveet, hovv fair, and lovely her aſpects are? / her eyes are like bright Ioan flames ſhot thorovv me.
- 2015, Bill Reed, The Pipwink Papers, Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Independent, →ISBN:
- But we can note how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light to recreate the images of life's grey, last sickly days […]
- Relating to the east; eastern.
- 1720, J[ohn] Bulkeley, “Book II”, in The Last-Day. A Poem, […], London: […] J. Peele, […]; R. King, […]; C[harles] Rivington, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood […], →OCLC, page 81:
- Ocean vvas troubled, from th' Atlantick Vaſte / To Shores Eöan vvhere Braſilian Hills / Are cloath'd vvith Myrrh, and Trees diſtill vvith Balm.
- 1813, Robert Mayo, “Preliminary. Progress and Extent of Ancient Geography.”, in A View of Ancient Geography, and Ancient History. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: John F[anning] Watson, […]; A. Fagan printer, →OCLC, part I (Natural Geography), page 3:
- [Ancient navigators] carried their commerce to Thynæ, the capital of Sinæ, on the river Senus now Camboja, in the ulterior peninsula of India, where their Eoan Ocean respects the east; circumnavigated Africa; and penetrated to the Thule, now Shetland isles: here they acquired some idea of the Mare Pigrum or Northern Ocean, which they would fain connect with the Eoan or Eastern Ocean by an extension of the Baltic […]
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to Liberty”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 221:
- Come Thou, but lead out of the inmost cave / Of man's deep spirit, as the morning-star / Beckons the Sun from the Eoan wave.
- 1827, [Henry Taylor], Isaac Comnenus. […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 129:
- Armenian girls / Call him the Mithra of the middle world, / That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.
Alternative forms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]relating to the dawn
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relating to the east — see eastern
See also
[edit]- dawnlike
- matinal
- matitudinal
- matutinal
- matutinary (chiefly US, rare)
- matutine
References
[edit]- ^ “Eoan, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
- ^ “eoan, adj.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]dawn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “eoan, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews- (dawn)
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms suffixed with -an
- English 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/əʊən
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- English adjectives
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