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

• (genus):  - the only species

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
• Saturnalia at Paleobiology Database

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌsætɚˈneɪli.ə/, /ˌsætɚˈneɪljə/
• Rhymes: -eɪliə

Proper noun

Saturnalia

1. An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.

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.turˈnaː.li.a/, [s̠äːt̪ʊrˈnäːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.turˈna.li.a/, [sät̪urˈnäːliä]

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.

Case	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.