aetites

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman aetite, aetites, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French aetite, and their source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (lapis) āetītēs (“eagle (stone)”), from Hellenistic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀετίτης (λίθος) (aetítēs (líthos), “eagle (stone)”), from ἀετός (aetós, “eagle”).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /iːˈtaɪtiːz/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /iˈtaɪdiz/

Noun

aetites

  1. An eaglestone. [from 15th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 184:
      On such analogous reasoning it is not difficult to see why the aetites stone, with another rattling inside it, should have been thought helpful to a pregnant woman.

Translations

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