Aegean

See also: Ægean

English

Alternative forms

• Aegæan, Ægaean, Ægæan, Ægean (archaic)
• Aegaean, Egean

Etymology

Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ējē'ən, IPA^(key): /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
• Rhymes: -iən

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Adjective

Aegean (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it.
2. Of or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region.

Derived terms

• Aegean Islands
• Aegeanness

Translations

of or relating to the Aegean Sea

• Bulgarian: егейски (egejski)
• Catalan: egeu
• Czech: egejský
• Dutch: egeïsch
• Estonian: egeuse
• French: égéen (fr)
• German: ägäisch (de)
• Greek: αιγαιοπελαγίτικος (el) (aigaiopelagítikos)
• Hindi: ईजियन (ījiyan)
• Irish: Aeigéach, na Mara Aeigéiche
• Macedonian: егејски (egejski)
• Maltese: Eġew
• Polish: egejski (pl)
• Portuguese: egeu (pt)
• Russian: эгейский (ru) (egejskij)
• Slovene: egejski m
• Spanish: egeo (es)
• Turkish: Ege (tr), Egeli (tr)

of or relating to Bronze Age civilization

• Czech: egejský
• Finnish: aigeialainen (fi)
• Irish: Aeigéach
• Polish: egejski (pl)

Noun

Aegean (plural Aegeans)

1. A shorthaired domestic cat originating from the Cyclades; an Aegean cat.

Proper noun

the Aegean

1. A sea between Greece and Anatolia north of Crete; a lobe of the Mediterranean; in full, Aegean Sea.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 166:

     Clytaemestra’s purpose to kill her husband had been locked in her heart long before the tidings had been flashed across the Aegean that his coming was at hand.

2. (geology) An age from 245 ± 1.5 to 244 million years ago, a subdivision of the Triassic.

Translations

Aegean Sea — see Aegean Sea