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Rhætian

Rhætian is the obsolete spelling of Rhaetian.

Meaning of Rhaetian

Proper noun

Rhaetian

  1. An extinct non-Romance language spoken in the ancient region of Raetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times.
  2. Rhaeto-Romance, a continuum of modern Romance languages spoken in much the same region.
  3. An age from 203.6 ± 1.5 to 199.6 ± 0.6 million years ago, a subdivision of the Triassic.

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Forms of Rhætian

pluralRhætians

Questions about Rhætian

What is Rhætian the obsolete spelling of?
Rhætian is the obsolete spelling of Rhaetian.

Words near Rhætian in the dictionary

  1. rhytismataceous
  2. rhyton
  3. rhytons
  4. RHZE
  5. rhæa
  6. Rhætian
  7. Rhætians
  8. Rhæto-
  9. Rhéal
  10. Rhône
  11. Rhône-Alpes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rhætian (page history and authors); Rhaetian (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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