Iason

Iason m

1. Jason

   Synonym: Giasone

• Sonia, aniso-, ansio, asino, siano, sonai

From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iˈaː.soːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈaː.s̬on]

Iāsōn m sg (genitive Iāsonis); third declension

1. Jason (a Greek hero who was the son of Aeson, king of Thessaly, and leader of the Argonauts)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.397:

     ultaque se male mater Iasonis effugit arma.

     And the avenged mother wickedly fled the sword of Jason by herself.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Iason”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from Latin Iāsōn, from Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn).

Iason m

1. (Greek mythology) Jason