Charontean
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Latin oblique stem Latin Charontis.
Pronunciation
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editCharontean (not comparable)
- Rare form of Charontian.
- 1838, William Herbert, Attila, King of the Huns, London: Henry G. Bohn, pages 48fn, 100fn:
- The Charontean head still existed at Antioch in the ninth century [...] That head was a Gorgon, or snake-hair'd head. [...] Prudentius states that the Charontean head of Nimrod was the evil God of Marcion.