English

Proper noun

Xenophon

1. Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 BCE and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν ‎(Xenophôn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.no.pʰoːn/, [ˈksɛ.nɔ.pʰoːn]

Proper noun

Xenophōn m ‎(genitive Xenophontis); third declension

1. Xenophon (a celebrated Greek historian and philosopher, born 445 B.C., a pupil of Socrates and a leader of the Greeks in the army of Cyrus the younger)

Declension

Third declension.

Related terms

• Xenophontēus
• Xenophontīus

References

• Xĕnŏphon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Xĕnŏphōn”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,699/2.
• Xenophon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• Xenophon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Xenophon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Xenophōn” on page 2,124/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)