Alazon
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See also: alazon
English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alazon
- A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈlaːz.zoːn/, [äˈɫ̪äːz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈlad.d͡zon/, [äˈläd̪ː͡z̪on]
Proper noun[edit]
Alāzōn m sg (genitive Alāzonos); third declension
- the Alazani or Qanıx (a river in Caucasian Albania)
- AD 70–79, Gaius Valerius Flaccus (author), Otto Kramer (editor), Argonautica (C. Valeri Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon Libri Octo, 1913), book VI, lines 99–101:
- nec procul albentes gemina ferit aclyde parmas, // hiberni qui terga Novae gelidumque securi // eruit et tota non audit Alazona ripa.
- AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Harris Rackham (translator), Naturalis Historia, book VI, chapter xi, § 29 (volume II [1942], page 358):
- Planitiem omnem a Cyro usque Albanorum gens tenet, mox Hiberum discreta ab his amne Alazone in Cyrum Caucasis montibus defluente.
- All the plain from the Kur onward is occupied by the race of the Albani and then that of the Hiberes, separated from the Albani by the river Alazon, which flows down from Mount Caucasus into the Cyrus. ― translation from the same source, page 359
- Planitiem omnem a Cyro usque Albanorum gens tenet, mox Hiberum discreta ab his amne Alazone in Cyrum Caucasis montibus defluente.
- AD 70–79, Gaius Valerius Flaccus (author), Otto Kramer (editor), Argonautica (C. Valeri Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon Libri Octo, 1913), book VI, lines 99–101:
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Alāzōn |
Genitive | Alāzonos |
Dative | Alāzonī |
Accusative | Alāzona |
Ablative | Alāzone |
Vocative | Alāzōn |
References[edit]
- “Ălāzon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Alāzōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 94/1.
- “ALA´ZON”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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