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Ortygian

Ortygian adjective: of or relating to the island of Ortygia.

Adjective

Ortygian (comparative more Ortygian, superlative most Ortygian)

  1. Of or relating to the island of Ortygia.
    • In the rocking deep / Beneath the Ortygian shore;——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...

Noun

Ortygian (plural Ortygians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Ortygia.

Forms of Ortygian

Adjective
comparativemore Ortygian
superlativemost Ortygian
Noun
pluralOrtygians

Questions about Ortygian

What does Ortygian mean?
Ortygian means of or relating to the island of Ortygia.
What part of speech is Ortygian?
Ortygian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Ortygian in the dictionary

  1. Ortwein
  2. Ortweins
  3. ortygan
  4. ortygans
  5. Ortygia
  6. Ortygian
  7. Ortygians
  8. orujo
  9. orujos
  10. Orumiyeh
  11. Orumtsi

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