different between saturnian vs saturnalia

English

Adjective

saturnian (comparative more saturnian, superlative most saturnian)

1. (poetry) Alternative form of Saturnian

Noun

saturnian (plural saturnians)

1. (poetry) Alternative form of Saturnian

Anagrams

• Turanians, naturians, nutarians

Romanian

Etymology

From French saturnien

Adjective

saturnian m or n (feminine singular saturnian?, masculine plural saturnieni, feminine and neuter plural saturniene)

1. saturnine

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin S?turn?lia, a festival of the winter solstice

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæt??ne?li.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæt??ne?li.?/, /?sæt??ne?lj?/

Noun

saturnalia (plural saturnalias)

1. A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XXVIII

     Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.

Related terms

• Saturn
• saturnalian
• saturnian

Translations

See also

• bacchanalia
• dionysia

Anagrams

• Australian