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Etymology

Etymology tree English absinth 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 absinthian From absinth + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of the nature of wormwood.
   • Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets 1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems:
2. Of or pertaining to absinthe.
   • … in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, … (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995)
   • The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […] 1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70:
   • The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees. 1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227:
   • The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely. 1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16:

Forms

Translations (4)

fi absinttinen (Translations) · pl absyntowy (Translations) · ru полы́нный (Translations) · pt absíntico (Translations)