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mysteria

mysteria is the plural of mysterium.

Meaning of mysterium

Noun

mysterium (plural mysteria)

  1. (historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
    • There are many such mysteria: milk is a mysterium of cheese and butter, and cheese in turn a mysterium of maggots, which were thought to form spontaneously in rotting food.2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 263
  2. (historical) The hypothetical source of a galactic radio emission at 1665 megahertz (later identified as due to hydroxyl radicals in interstellar space).

Questions about mysteria

What is mysteria the plural of?
Mysteria is the plural of mysterium.

Words near mysteria in the dictionary

  1. mystax
  2. mystaxes
  3. mystecete
  4. mystecetes
  5. mysterama
  6. mysteria
  7. mysterial
  8. mysterian
  9. mysterianism
  10. mysterianist
  11. mysterianists

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