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Acroceraunian

Acroceraunian adjective: of or relating to the Ceraunian Mountains.

Adjective

Acroceraunian (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Of or relating to the Ceraunian Mountains.
    • Arethusa arose / From her couch of snows / In the Acroceraunian mountains,——1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Arethusa”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published...
    • What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of...1854, Herman Melville, “The Lightning-Rod Man”, in The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1856

Origin of Acroceraunian

From Latin Acroceraunius, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “high, heights”) + κεραυνός (keraunós, “thunderbolt”).

Questions about Acroceraunian

What does Acroceraunian mean?
Acroceraunian means of or relating to the Ceraunian Mountains.
What part of speech is Acroceraunian?
Acroceraunian is an adjective.

Words near Acroceraunian in the dictionary

  1. acrocephalopolysyndactyly
  2. acrocephalosyndactylia
  3. acrocephalosyndactyly
  4. acrocephalous
  5. acrocephaly
  6. Acroceraunian
  7. acrocerci
  8. acrocercus
  9. acrocerid
  10. acrocerids
  11. acrochord

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