different between saturnine vs saturnalia

English

Etymology

From Middle English saturnine, satournine, satournyne, saturnin, saturnyn, saturnyne (“pertaining to or under the influence of the planet Saturn; line on the palm of the hand associated with Saturn”), from Old French saturnine, saturnin (modern French saturnin (“of, pertaining to, resembling or containing lead, plumbic”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin S?turn?nus, from S?turnus (“the Roman god Saturn; the planet Saturn”) + -?nus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); analysable as Saturn +? -ine. The English word is cognate with Italian saturnino (“saturnine”), Portuguese saturnino (“melancholy, saturnine; pertaining to the planet Saturn”), Spanish saturnino (“melancholy, saturnine; pertaining to the planet Saturn”).

Sense 1 (“having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, etc.”) refers to the fact that individuals born under the astrological influence of the planet Saturn were believed to have that disposition.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæt?na?n/, /-n?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæt??na?n/, /-?nin/, [-??-]
• Hyphenation: sa?turn?ine

Adjective

saturnine (comparative more saturnine, superlative most saturnine)

1. (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.

   Synonyms: dark, grim, sardonic; see also Thesaurus:cheerless

   Antonyms: cheerful, jovial; see also Thesaurus:happy
2. (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
3. (comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
4. (not comparable, pathology) Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
5. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

Derived terms

• saturnine gout
• saturnine mount

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References

Further reading

• saturnine (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Neustrian

French

Adjective

saturnine

1. feminine singular of saturnin

Italian

Adjective

saturnine f pl

1. feminine plural of saturnino

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

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See also

• bacchanalia
• dionysia

Anagrams

• Australian