Noachian en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /nəʊˈeɪkɪən/ (UK)
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Etymology
Etymology tree English Noach Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Noachian From Noach (“variant of Noah”) + -ian.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to Noah or his time.
The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total.
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 13:At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed.
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:At the next meeting he was back on a geological topic illustrated by maps, diagrams and specimens, and the following year he spoke on "The Noachian Deluge, universal with regard to man, but very restricted with regard to the earth"[.]
1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 47: