agon
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Etymology
From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæ.ɡəʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæ.ɡoʊn/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: a‧gon
Noun
agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)
- (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:
- It was not ecological pressure or shortages of protein, as anthropologist Marvin Harris has claimed; institutionalized violence, as opposed to the stylized agons of hunters over grievances, was the shadow side of the Neolithic Revolution.
- 2023 October 17, Volodymyr Yermolenko, “Europe seeks peace, not war. But will it be ready if war comes to Europe?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- The other ethical system is that of agon. Agon is a battlefield. We enter agon not to exchange, but to fight. We dream of winning but are also prepared to lose – including to lose ourselves, even in the literal sense of dying for a great cause.
- (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
- 1986 March 23, Harold Bloom, “Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer”, in New York Times:
- Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.
- 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
- The point, though, is that to fully and uncritically surrender to such agon against individuals is to invite one's own ethical degeneration; […]
- (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
- (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.
- Synonym: queen's guard
Derived terms
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Translations
a struggle or contest
a contest in ancient Greece
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Anagrams
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Noun
agon
- accusative singular of ago
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡoːn/, [ˈäɡoːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡon/, [ˈäːɡon]
Noun
agōn m (genitive agōnis); third declension
- a contest
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “agon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- agon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- agon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “agon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English āgān (“to go out”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān.
Pronunciation
Verb
agon
Conjugation
| infinitive | (to) agon, ago | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | ago | ayede, awente | |
| 2nd-person singular | agost, agest | ayedest, awentest | |
| 3rd-person singular | agoth, ageth | ayede, awente | |
| subjunctive singular | ago | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | agon, ago | ayeden, ayede, awenten, awente | |
| imperative plural | agoth, ago | — | |
| participles | agoynge, agonde | agon, ago | |
Conjugation of agon (irregular, suppletive)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “agōn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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Verb
āgon
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn).
Noun
agon m inan
- (Ancient Greece, historical) agon (contest)
Declension
Declension of agon
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
agon
Further reading
- agon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Noun
agon m (plural agons or agones)
- agon (a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist)
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Ar | |
| Previous: clo (Cl) | |
| Next: kali (K) | |
Etymology
From French argon, from English argon, from New Latin argon, from Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón).
Pronunciation
Noun
agon
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