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Anticythera

Anticythera is the alternative form of Antikythera.

Meaning of Antikythera

Proper noun

Antikythera

  1. An island of Greece located between the Peloponnese and Crete, near Kythira.

Origin of Anticythera

Borrowed from Latin Anticythēra, from Ancient Greek Ἀντικύθηρα (Antikúthēra), from ἀντι- (anti-) + Κύθηρα (Kúthēra). By surface analysis, anti- + Cythera.

Questions about Anticythera

What is Anticythera the alternative form of?
Anticythera is the alternative form of Antikythera.

Words near Anticythera in the dictionary

  1. anticyclonic
  2. anticyclonically
  3. anticyclotomic
  4. anticysticercal
  5. anticysticidal
  6. Anticythera
  7. anticytochrome
  8. anticytokeratin
  9. anticytokine
  10. anticytokines
  11. anticytolytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Anticythera (page history and authors); Antikythera (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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