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Taygetan en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Tayget(os) + -an.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.
   • Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound. 1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:

Taygetan en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From Taygeta + -an.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.

Taygetan en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Taygeta + -an.

Meanings

1. An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.

Forms

Hypernyms

Pleiadean