Plouton

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn). Doublet of Pluto.

Plouton

1. Synonym of Pluto (“the Greco-Roman god of the underworld”).
   • 1871, Robert Browning, Balaustion’s Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 53:

     But were the tongue and tune of Orpheus mine, / So that to Koré crying, or her lord, / In hymns, from Hades I might rescue thee— / Down would I go, and neither Plouton’s dog / Nor Charon, he whose oar sends souls across, / Should stay me till again I made thee stand / Living, within the light!

   • 1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6:

     The first picture represents “The Going Down of Persephone,” and contains two figures, Plouton and Persephone. The story told in the finest of seed letters is: “Plouton, who sends up from the nether world the abundance of corn and wealth of produce, is on the point of taking Persephone down to his realm.” “Persephone, the life force which vivifies all in the spring time, producing the manifold harvests of earth, descends with Plouton to the under world in autumn.”

   • 2013, Mark Griffith, “What Happens in Frogs? (The Plot)”, in Aristophanes’ Frogs (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 70:

     The new twist is introduced in the course of a short and seemingly trivial conversation between two slaves, Xanthias and one of Plouton’s servants.

Internationalism. Borrowed from Latin Plūtō, Plūtōnem, possibly via English Pluto or Welsh Plwton.

Plouton m

1. Pluto (dwarf planet)
2. Pluto (Roman god)