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saturnia

saturnia noun: pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.

Noun

saturnia (uncountable)

  1. Pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.

Proper noun capitalized: Saturnia

Saturnia

  1. A spa town in Tuscany, north-central Italy, that has been inhabited since ancient times.

Origin of saturnia

From Saturn + -ia after saturnism, a former name for lead poisoning derived from the association of the planet Saturn with lead in European alchemy.

Questions about saturnia

What does saturnia mean?
Saturnia means pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.
What part of speech is saturnia?
Saturnia can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near saturnia in the dictionary

  1. saturnalian
  2. saturnalians
  3. saturnalias
  4. saturnally
  5. Saturnals
  6. saturnia
  7. saturnian
  8. saturnians
  9. saturnic
  10. Saturnicentric
  11. Saturnight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saturnia (page history and authors); Saturnia (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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