Charon

Translingual

Charon grayii

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Charon m

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

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

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

References

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

English

Image taken of Charon in July 2015

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹɒn/, /ˈkɛːrən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹən/ (Greek mythology)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/, /ˈkɛəɹɑn/, /ˈʃɛəɹən/, /ˈkɛəɹən/ (astronomy)
• Rhymes: (US) -ɛəɹən
• Hyphenation: Char‧on

Proper noun

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.

Synonyms

• (astronomy): ⯕

Derived terms

• Charonian
• Charonic

Translations

a moon of Pluto

• Arabic: شَارُون‎ m (šarūn)
• Cherokee: ᎧᎶᏂ (kaloni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥衛一／冥卫一 (Míngwèiyī)

• Czech: Charon m inan
• Danish: Charon
• Finnish: Kharon (fi)
• French: Charon (fr)
• Galician: Caronte (gl)
• German: Charon (de) m
• Greek: Χάρων (el) m (Cháron), Χάροντας (el) m (Chárontas)
• Greenlandic: Charoni
• Hungarian: Kharón
• Italian: Caronte m
• Japanese: カロン (ja) (Karon), シャロン (Sharon)
• Korean: 카론 (Karon)
• Macedonian: Харон m (Haron)
• Maori: kūwata
• Polish: Charon (pl) m
• Portuguese: Caronte
• Russian: Харо́н (ru) m (Xarón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Haron (sh) m

• Sicilian: Carunti m
• Spanish: Caronte (es)
• Swedish: Charon (sv)

the ferryman of Hades

• Arabic: خَارُون‎ (ḵārūn)
• Armenian: Քարոն (hy) (Kʿaron)
• Basque: Karon (eu)
• Breton: C'haron
• Bulgarian: Харо́н m (Harón)
• Catalan: Caront m
• Cherokee: ᎧᎶᏂ (kaloni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡戎 (Kǎróng)

• Corsican: Caronti
• Czech: Charón m anim, Charon m anim
• Danish: Karon
• Finnish: Kharon (fi)
• Galician: Caronte (gl)
• Georgian: ქარონი (ka) (karoni)
• Greek: Χάρων (el) m (Cháron), Χάρος (el) m (Cháros)

  Ancient: Χάρων m (Khárōn)

• Greenlandic: Charoni
• Hebrew: כארון‎
• Hungarian: Charon, Kharón
• Indonesian: Kharon
• Inuktitut: ᖄᕈᓐ (qaaron)
• Irish: Carón
• Japanese: カローン
• Korean: 카론 (Karon)
• Ligurian: Caronte, Charu, Charun
• Lithuanian: Charonas
• Macedonian: Харон m (Haron)
• Norwegian: Kharon
• Persian: خارون‎
• Polish: Charon (pl) m
• Portuguese: Caronte
• Russian: Харо́н (ru) m (Xarón)
• Serbo-Croatian: Ха̑рон m

  Roman: Hȃron (sh) m

• Sicilian: Carunti m
• Slovak: Charón, Cháron
• Slovene: Haron (sl)
• Spanish: Caronte (es)
• Thai: แครอน
• Turkish: Kharoon
• Ukrainian: Харо́н m (Xarón)

See also

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

Noun

Charon (plural Charons)

1. (poetic) Any ferryman.

Anagrams

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

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Charon m

2. (astronomy, inanimate) 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.

4. (Greek mythology, animate) 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, […]

Declension

masculine inanimate

Declension of Charon

	singulare tantum
nominative	Charon
genitive	Charona, Charonu
dative	Charonu
accusative	Charon, Charona
vocative	Charone
locative	Charonu
instrumental	Charonem

masculine animate

Declension of Charon

	singulare tantum
nominative	Charon
genitive	Charona
dative	Charonovi
accusative	Charona
vocative	Charone
locative	Charonovi
instrumental	Charonem

Derived terms

• charonský
• Charonův

 

See also

Solar System in Czech · sluneční soustava (layout · text)
Star	Slunce
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkur	Venuše	Země	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uran	Neptun	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Měsíc	Phobos/Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymed Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

Further reading

• Charon in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu