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hupaithric

hupaithric adjective: roofless; open to the sky.

Adjective

hupaithric (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Roofless; open to the sky.
    • that spacious cell
      Like an upaithric temple wide and high,
      Whose aëry dome is inaccessible,
      Was pierced with one round cleft through which the sunbeams fell.1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
    • Their temples were mostly hupaithric; and the flying clouds, the stars, or the deep sky, were seen above.1980, William Blackwood, Blackwood's Magazine

Synonyms of hupaithric

Forms of hupaithric

alternative formhypaethric
alternative formupaithric

Origin of hupaithric

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros) with the addition of -ic, the former from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”).

Questions about hupaithric

What does hupaithric mean?
Hupaithric means roofless; open to the sky.
What part of speech is hupaithric?
Hupaithric is an adjective.

Words near hupaithric in the dictionary

  1. hup
  2. Hupa
  3. Hupa Valley
  4. hupah
  5. hupahs
  6. hupaithric
  7. Hupas
  8. Hupeh
  9. hupehsuchian
  10. hupehsuchians
  11. hupehsuchid

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