pogonias

pogonias

1. plural of pogonia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πωγωνίας (pōgōnías), from πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [poːˈɡoː.ni.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [poˈɡɔː.ni.as]

pōgōniās m (genitive pōgōniae); first declension

1. (astronomy) A kind of comet

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

• “pogonias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pogonias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.