Φαέθων

Φαέθων

See also: φαέθων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Use as a proper noun of the masculine forms of φᾰέθων (phaéthōn, “shining”, “radiant”), the present active participle of φᾰέθω (phaéthō, “I shine”, “I am radiant”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰa.é.tʰɔːn/ → /ɸaˈe.θon/ → /faˈe.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰa.é.tʰɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈe.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaˈe.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faˈe.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faˈe.θon/

Proper noun

Φᾰέθων • (Phaéthōn) m (genitive Φᾰέθοντος); third declension

1. one of the light-bringing steeds of Eos
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.246
2. son of Eos and Cephalus
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 987
3. Phaëthon (son of Helios, famous for his unlucky driving of the sun-chariot, and subject of a play by Euripides)
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 739
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 345a.15
   1. the Sun
      • Doroth., Cat.Cod.Astr. 2.82
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.81
   2. the constellation Auriga
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.357
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.424
4. the planet Jupiter
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Universe 392a.24
   • Eudox., Ars 5.14
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, ND 2.20.52

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Φᾰέθων; τοῦ Φᾰέθοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φᾰέθων ho Phaéthōn
Genitive	τοῦ Φᾰέθοντος toû Phaéthontos
Dative	τῷ Φᾰέθοντῐ tôi Phaéthonti
Accusative	τὸν Φᾰέθοντᾰ tòn Phaéthonta
Vocative	Φᾰέθον Phaéthon
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φᾰεθόντειος (Phaethónteios)
• Φᾰεθοντιάς (Phaethontiás)
• Φᾰεθόντιος (Phaethóntios)
• Φᾰεθοντίς (Phaethontís)

Related terms

• Φᾰέθουσᾰ (Phaéthousa)

Descendants

• Greek: Φαέθων (Faéthon), Φαέθοντας (Faéthontas)
• Latin: Phaëthōn
• Russian: Фаэто́н (Faetón)

References

• “Φαέθων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• “Φαέθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• Phaëton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia