Chaon

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Chaon

1. (Greek mythology) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.
   • 1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names‎^[1], Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132:

     Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).

2. A surname.

Related terms

• Chaonia
• Chaonian

Anagrams

• Cohan, ancho, nacho

French

Proper noun

Chaon ?

1. Chaon (a village and commune of the Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France)