Phaethon

From Latin Phaethon, from Ancient Greek Φαέθων (Phaéthōn).

Phaethon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phaethontidae – tropicbirds.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neornithes - parvclass; Neognathae - cohort; Phaethontiformes - order; Phaethontidae - family

• (genus): Phaethon aethereus (red-billed tropicbird) - type species; Phaethon lepturus (white-tailed tropicbird), Phaethon rubricauda (red-tailed tropicbird) - other accepted species

• Tropicbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phaethon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phaethon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

Phaethon

1. Alternative form of Phaëthon
2. (astronomy) the asteroid Phaethon

• Phaëtōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φᾰέθων (Phaéthōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.e.tʰoːn/, [ˈpʰäɛt̪ʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.e.ton/, [ˈfäːet̪on]

Phaëthōn m sg (genitive Phaëthontis or Phaëthontos); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Phaëthon (son of Helios and Clymene, who, having obtained from his father permission to drive the sun’s chariot for a day, lost control of the steeds, and was struck down by a thunderbolt of Zeus, to prevent his setting the earth on fire)
2. (poetic) a divine epithet of the Sun
3. Synonym of Iuppiter (“the planet Jupiter”)
4. Synonym of Saturnus (“the planet Saturn”)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Phaenōn

• “Phăĕthon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phăĕthōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,170/1.
• “Phaëthōn” on page 1,371 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)