Idaean

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin Idaeus (and its source, Ancient Greek Ἰδαῖος (Idaîos)) +‎ -an.

Adjective[edit]

Idaean (comparative more Idaean, superlative most Idaean)

  1. Pertaining to Mount Ida, the name given to a mountain near ancient Troy, and to a mountain of Crete, sometimes held to be the birthplace of Zeus. [from 16th c.]
    • 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 1.XXVI:
      Where Ellen's hand had taught to twine / The ivy and Idaean vine […] .

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