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語源

From Latin Charōn, from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/
• (米国発音) (Greek mythology): IPA: /ˈkɛəɹən/
• (米国発音) (astronomy): IPA: /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/, /-ɹən/
• 韻: -ɛəɹən, -ɛəɹɒn
• ハイフネーション: Char‧on

固有名詞

Charon

1. (Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 375, lines 445–448:

     The Ghoſts rejected, are th’ unhappy Crew
     Depriv’d of Sepulchers, and Fun’ral due.
     The Boatman, Charon; thoſe, the bury’d hoſt,
     He Ferries over to the Farther Coaſt.

   • 1897, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Ballade by the Fire”, in Children of the Night‎:

     But then, what though the mystic Three
     Around me ply their merry trade? —
     And Charon soon may carry me
     Across the gloomy Stygian glade?

2. (astronomy) The largest of the five moons of Pluto.

   Synonym: ⯕

   • 2015 October 6, Alan Yuhas, “Images of Pluto and Charon continue to captivate Nasa: 'This world is alive'”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Last week Nasa released its highest resolution photos yet of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, revealing new mysteries that its spacecraft New Horizons had uncovered at the edge of the solar system.

派生語

• Charonian
• Charonic
• Charon's obol

参考

• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra

名詞

Charon (plural Charons)

1. (poetic) Any ferryman.

アナグラム

• Anchor, achorn, anchor, archon, noarch, rancho

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʰa.roːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkaː.ron]

固有名詞

Charōn m sg (genitive Charōnis or Charontis or Charontos); third declension

1. Charon (ferryman of the underworld in Greek mythology)

語形変化

Third declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn; two different stems), singular only.

派生語

派生した語

• → English: Charon

参照

• “Charon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Charon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.