aeon

== English == === Alternative forms === æon, Aeon, Æon, aion, Aion === Etymology === From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”). === Noun === aeon (plural aeons) Commonwealth standard spelling of eon. (Gnosticism) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology. ==== Derived terms ==== light aeon === Anagrams === eoan == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, eternity”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯.oːn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.on] === Noun === aeōn m (genitive aeōnis); third declension (Late Latin) age, eternity (Late Latin) one of the Gnostic Aeons ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Spanish: eón French: éon Italian: eone → English: eon, aeon === References === “aeon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "aeon", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “aeon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “aeon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers