agon

See also: Agon, ágon, aĝon, and agöṅ

English

WOTD – 10 January 2006

Etymology

From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ɡəʊn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ɡoʊn/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)

1. A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
2. An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
   • Harold Bloom

     Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.

3. A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
4. (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.

   Synonym: queen's guard

Related terms

• agony
• agonism
• antagonism
• antagonist
• protagonism
• protagonist

Translations

a struggle or contest

• Finnish: taistelu (fi)
• German: Agon (de) m
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• Italian: agone (it) m
• Portuguese: agon (pt) m

a test of will

• Finnish: taistelu (fi)
• German: Agon (de) m
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• Italian: agone (it) m

a contest in ancient Greece

• Finnish: agon
• German: Agon (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: agone (it) m

a two-player boardgame

• Finnish: agon
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: agone (it) m

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Japanese: 懸賞付き競技（けんしょうつききょうぎ, kensyō tsuki kyōgi）
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Anagrams

• Gano, Gaon, Goan, Nago, Noga, gaon, goan

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Noun

agon

1. accusative singular of ago

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡoːn/, [ˈäɡoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡon/, [ˈäːɡon]

Noun

agōn m (genitive agōnis); third declension

1. a contest

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agōn	agōnēs
Genitive	agōnis	agōnum
Dative	agōnī	agōnibus
Accusative	agōnem	agōnēs
Ablative	agōne	agōnibus
Vocative	agōn	agōnēs

References

• “agon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• agon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “agon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary

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Portuguese

Noun

agon m (plural s or agones)

1. agon (a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist)

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Vietnamese

Chemical element
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Etymology

From French argon, from English argon, from New Latin argon, from Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Phonetic: a gông

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Noun

agon

1. argon