Etneanadj.

Brit.

/ɛtˈniːən/, U.S.

/ɛtˈniən/

Forms: 1500s– Aetnean, 1500s– Etnean. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Etna , -ean suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Mount Etna (classical Latin Aetna , Italian Etna ) + -ean suffix. Compare Vesuvian n. 2.

Of or relating to Mount Etna, an active volcano in eastern Sicily; inhabiting or located on the slopes of this. Occasionally also: resembling or characteristic of a volcano.

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1569 T. Underdowne tr. Ovid Inuectiue against Ibis sig. D.vii Th'etnean shepeherd.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K2^v Then doo the Aetnean Cyclops him affray.

1600 B. Jonson in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 225 And after all their Aetnean ire, ‘Gold that is perfect will out-liue the fire’.

1682 J. Phillips Horse-flesh for Observator 11 You shall meet with an Antipendium scalding with such an Etnean Heat, as would even melt the Rhodian Colossus's Brass Screw.

1747 W. Dunkin Boeotia 6 Thee Lemnos hails, Ætnean Sire, Array'd with Majesty of Fire.

1798 tr. L. Spallanzani Trav. Two Sicilies IV. xxiii. 39 This Etnean lava flowed the distance of more than fourteen miles.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 332 While I ask and hear Whence coming, they arrive the Ætnean hill.

1869 Student & Intellect. Observer 3 174 In the nineteenth century we have already had twenty-four Vesuvian and fifteen Etnean eruptions.

1906 E. C. Peixotto By Ital. Seas 173 How can one describe the strangeness of the Etnean landscape?

1965 M. B. Tolson Harlem Gallery 73 Etnean gasps! Vesuvian acclamations!

2005 R. Lopes Volcano Adventure Guide 40/2 Numerous Etnean towns have been threatened by lava flows.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	etnean
释义	Etneanadj. Brit. /ɛtˈniːən/, U.S. /ɛtˈniən/ Forms: 1500s– Aetnean, 1500s– Etnean. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Etna , -ean suffix. Etymology: < the name of Mount Etna (classical Latin Aetna , Italian Etna ) + -ean suffix. Compare Vesuvian n. 2. Of or relating to Mount Etna, an active volcano in eastern Sicily; inhabiting or located on the slopes of this. Occasionally also: resembling or characteristic of a volcano. ΚΠ 1569 T. Underdowne tr. Ovid Inuectiue against Ibis sig. D.vii Th'etnean shepeherd. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K2^v Then doo the Aetnean Cyclops him affray. 1600 B. Jonson in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 225 And after all their Aetnean ire, ‘Gold that is perfect will out-liue the fire’. 1682 J. Phillips Horse-flesh for Observator 11 You shall meet with an Antipendium scalding with such an Etnean Heat, as would even melt the Rhodian Colossus's Brass Screw. 1747 W. Dunkin Boeotia 6 Thee Lemnos hails, Ætnean Sire, Array'd with Majesty of Fire. 1798 tr. L. Spallanzani Trav. Two Sicilies IV. xxiii. 39 This Etnean lava flowed the distance of more than fourteen miles. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 332 While I ask and hear Whence coming, they arrive the Ætnean hill. 1869 Student & Intellect. Observer 3 174 In the nineteenth century we have already had twenty-four Vesuvian and fifteen Etnean eruptions. 1906 E. C. Peixotto By Ital. Seas 173 How can one describe the strangeness of the Etnean landscape? 1965 M. B. Tolson Harlem Gallery 73 Etnean gasps! Vesuvian acclamations! 2005 R. Lopes Volcano Adventure Guide 40/2 Numerous Etnean towns have been threatened by lava flows. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1569
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