Cithaeron

Translingual

Proper noun

Cithaeron

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cithaeronidae – certain araneomorph spiders.

English

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Proper noun

Cithaeron

  1. A mountain and mountain range in Boeotia and Attica regional units, Greece.

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Latin

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κιθαιρών (Kithairṓn).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cithaerōn m sg (genitive Cithaerōnis); third declension

  1. a mountain in Boeotia regional unit, Greece, sacred to Bacchus and the Muses

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Cithaerōn
genitive Cithaerōnis
dative Cithaerōnī
accusative Cithaerōnem
ablative Cithaerōne
vocative Cithaerōn

Further reading

  • Cithaeron”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cithaeron in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Cithaeron, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
  • Cithaeron”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Cithaeron”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly