Saturnalia

See also: saturnalia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin Sāturnālia, interpreted as the Latin equivalent of Portuguese carnaval (“Carnival (the period before Lent)”); so called because the genus was discovered in Brazil during Carnival.

Proper noun

†Saturnalia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the order Saurischia – a dinosaur from the Triassic period.

Hyponyms

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Hypernyms

• (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida – clades; Diapsida – subclass; Archosauromorpha – infraclass; Archosauria – division; Ornithodira – subsection; Dinosauria – superorder; Saurischia – order

References

•   Saturnalia (dinosaur) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Saturnalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪliə

Proper noun

Saturnalia

1. An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.
   • 1913, Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, chapter I:

     Saturn was an ancient Italian deity. It was attempted to identify him with the Grecian god Cronos, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, where he reigned during what was called the Golden Age. In memory of his beneficent dominion, the feast of Saturnalia was held every year in the winter season.

Translations

holiday to mark the winter solstice

Hebrew: סְטַרְנוּרָא (starnúra) Irish: Féile Satairn f Italian: Saturnali m (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}} Latin: Sāturnālia Manx: Feailley Sarn f Russian: сатурна́лии f pl (saturnálii)

Further reading

•   Saturnalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Australian

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Latin

Etymology

From Sāturnus +‎ -ālia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saː.tʊrˈnaː.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sa.t̪urˈnaː.li.a]

Proper noun

Sāturnālia n pl (genitive Sāturnālium or Sāturnāliōrum); third declension

1. A festival of the winter solstice originally celebrated for three days beginning December 17th, but later extended to seven days.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.

	plural
nominative	Sāturnālia
genitive	Sāturnālium Sāturnāliōrum
dative	Sāturnālibus
accusative	Sāturnālia
ablative	Sāturnālibus
vocative	Sāturnālia

Derived terms

• nōn semper Sāturnālia erunt

Descendants

• → English: saturnalia, Saturnalia

References

• “Saturnalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Saturnalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Saturnalia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.