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Eoan
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eoan
English
2023 May 16
Etymology
thumb|Two parasailors enjoying the Eoan view (en dawn) at Langkawi off the coast of Kedah, Malaysia.
en ine-pro *h₂ews- dawn
From either of the following:
en la ē̆ōus of the east; of the dawn + en -an suffix forming adjectives. la Ē̆ōus is derived from grc ἠῷος of the east; of the morning,adj 63131 December 2022eoan adj ultimately from en ine-pro *h₂ews- dawn; east.
en Eos Greek goddess of the dawn an. en Eos is derived from en grc Ἠώς Greek goddess of the dawn, from grc ἠώς dawn, daybreak; morning; day; east: see above.
2 cog
it eoo
pt eoo
Pronunciation
en /iːˈəʊən/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eoan.wav Southern England
en /iˈoʊən/ GA
en əʊən 3
en Eo an
Adjective
- en archaic poetic
en dawn Relating to the dawn.
en auroral aurorean dilucular
en vespertinal vespertine
[B4] 1 C 22 VVhoſe moſt adored name incloſes, / Things abſtruſe, deep and diuine. / VVhoſe yellovv treſſes ſhine, / Bright as Eoan fire. Bright as Eoan fire, / O me thy Prieſt inſpire!
To the New Yeere 19–21 59 Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre;
The Prophetess III iii 36 1 [S]he moves unto me: / how ſvveet, hovv fair, and lovely her aſpects are? / her eyes are like bright Ioan flames ſhot thorovv me.
en Bill Reed The Pipwink Papers Melbourne, Vic. Reed Independent 2015 978-0-9942399-8-3 But we can note how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light to recreate the images of life's grey, last sickly days
Relating to the east; eastern.
en Will[iam] Wishartt w:Melpomene Immanuel: Or The Mistery of God, Manifested in the Flesh.Sung in the Several Cantoes of Urania. Astræa. Melpomene. London Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, for Philip Nevilldwelling in Ivie-Lane. 1642 canto 6 (The Triumph) 208 https://books.google.com/books?id=eD9oAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA208 81457663 And from his Orient or Eoan vvave, / VVhere Neptune doth his ſteps in pearle engrave, / Seeing a clearer Sun i' th' VVeſt ariſe / To all his Naids and his Napæis, cries / / Tvvo Suns ariſe at once, and in one day / Tvvo Titans to the vvorld their lights diſplay;
en J[ohn] Bulkeley Book II The Last-Day. A Poem,in XII. Books. London Printed for J. Peele,at Lock’s-Head, between the Temple-Gates; R. King,at the Prince’s-Arms; C[harles] Rivington,at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwoodat Cato’s -Head, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden. 1720 81 https://books.google.com/books?id=iK1YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA81 1326010508 Ocean vvas troubled, from th' Atlantick Vaſte / To Shores Eöan vvhere Braſilian Hills / Are cloath'd vvith Myrrh, and Trees diſtill vvith Balm.
en Robert Mayo Preliminary. Progress and Extent of Ancient Geography. A View of Ancient Geography, and Ancient History.Two Volumes in One. [...] Philadelphia, Pa. John F[anning] Watson,No. 51 Chesnut Street.; A. Fagan printer 1813 part I (Natural Geography) 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=UsMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 1374469 [Ancient navigators] carried their commerce to Thynæ, the capital of Sinæ, on the river Senus now Camboja, in the ulterior peninsula of India, where their Eoan Ocean respects the east; circumnavigated Africa; and penetrated to the Thule, now Shetland isles: here they acquired some idea of the Mare Pigrum or Northern Ocean, which they would fain connect with the Eoan or Eastern Ocean by an extension of the Baltic
XVIII 221 Come Thou, but lead out of the inmost cave / Of man's deep spirit, as the morning-star / Beckons the Sun from the Eoan wave.
129 Armenian girls / Call him the Mithra of the middle world, / That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.
Alternative forms
en eoan
Related terms
en Eos
en eosin
Translations
relating to the dawn
Finnish: fi aamunkoitteen genitive
Macedonian: mk зо́рен
Welsh: cy awroraidd
relating to the east eastern
See also
en dawnlike matinal matitudinal matutinary chiefly US rare matutinal matutine
References
Further reading
dawn
eoan n
Anagrams
en aeno aeon æon
en Day