Agon in Scrabble and Meaning

• Finder
• Unscrambler
• Dictionary

Valid words made from Agon

Results

4-letter words (1 found)

3-letter words (6 found)

2-letter words (6 found)

You can make 13 words from agon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of agon

agon

English

Etymology

From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ɡəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ɡoʊn/
• Hyphenation: a‧gon

Noun

agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)

1. (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
2. (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
3. (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
4. (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.

   Synonym: queen's guard

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Gano, Gaon, Goan, Nago, Noga, gaon, goan

Esperanto

Noun

agon

1. accusative singular of ago

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ɡon]

Noun

agōn m (genitive agōnis); third declension

1. a contest

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• → English: agon (“struggle”)
• → German: Agon
• Italian: agone
• → Portuguese: ágon
• → Translingual: (from genitive plural) Agonum

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ago, agan

Etymology

From Old English āgān (“to go out”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡɔːn/

Verb

agon

1. to go, depart

Conjugation

References

• “agōn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Verb

āgon

1. plural present indicative of āgan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɔn/
• Rhymes: -aɡɔn
• Syllabification: a‧gon

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn).

Noun

agon m inan

1. (Ancient Greece, historical) agon (contest)

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

agon

1. genitive plural of agona

Further reading

• agon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

agon m (plural agons or agones)

1. agon (a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French argon, from English argon, from New Latin argon, from Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˧˦ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˧˨ʔ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˦˧˥ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˨˩ʔ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˦˥ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔaːk̚˨˩˨ ɣəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: a gông, ác gông, ạc gông

Noun

agon

1. argon