Charon

Borrowed from both Latin Charōn (“Charon”) and Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn, “Charon”), the Hadean ferryman from Greek mythology.

Charon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Charontidae – certain whip spiders.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Chelicerata – subphylum; Arachnida – class; Amblypygi – order; Charontoidea – superfamily; Charontidae – family

• (genus): Charon grayi (giant whip-spider) – type species; for other species see Charon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Charon (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Charon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Charon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/
• (US) (Greek mythology): IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹən/

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• (US) (astronomy): IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/, /-ɹən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹən, -ɛəɹɒn
• Hyphenation: Char‧on

Charon

1. (Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
2. (astronomy) The largest of the five moons of Pluto.

• (astronomy): ⯕

• Charonian
• Charonic
• Charon's obol

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

Charon (plural Charons)

1. (poetic) Any ferryman.

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

• IPA^(key): [ˈxaron]
• Rhymes: -aron
• Hyphenation: Cha‧ron

Charon m inan (relational adjective charonský)

2. (astronomy) Charon (moon of Pluto) [since 1985]
   • 1989, Jiří Grygar, Vladimír Železný, Okna vesmíru dokořán, Praha: Naše vojsko, →ISBN, page 107:

     […] Charon „visí“ trvale nad určitým místem povrchu Pluta podobně jako geostacionární umělé družice Země nad pozemskou stanicí.

     […] Charon "hangs" above a certain point of the Pluto's surface in a similar way as geostationary artificial satellites of the Earth above a terrestrial station.

Charon m anim (relational adjective Charonův)

2. (Greek mythology) alternative spelling of Charón (the ferryman of Hades)
   • 1892, Jan Blokša, “Dante Alighieri a Vergilius Maro”, in Hlídka‎^[1], volume 9, page 318:

     Charon uviděv Aeneáše ozbrojeného připomněl si Heraklea, který též tak přišel a násilně si v podsvětí počínal, […]

     Charon having seen armed Aeneas remembered Herakles, who had also come in such a way and behaved violently in the underworld, […]

• “Charon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From Ancient Greek Χᾰ́ρων (Khắrōn).

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

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

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

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

• → English: Charon

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.rɔn/

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• Rhymes: -arɔn
• Syllabification: Cha‧ron

Charon m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Charon (ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx)
2. (astronomy) Charon (largest of the five moons of Pluto)

• Charon in PWN's encyclopedia

Charon

1. (Greek mythology) alternative spelling of Haron
2. (astronomy) Charon

Charon m (not mutable)

1. (Greek mythology) Charon (the ferryman of the underworld)
2. (astronomy) Charon (a moon of Pluto)