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Wiktionary

  1. Saturniannoun

    An inhabitant of the planet Saturn.

  2. Saturnianadjective

    Related to the planet Saturn.

  3. Saturnianadjective

    Related to the Roman god Saturn.

  4. Saturnianadjective

    Dour, baleful or sullen facial expression.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Saturnianadjective

    Happy; golden: used by poets for times of felicity, such as are feigned to have been in the reign of Saturn.

    Etymology: saturnius, Latin.

    Th’ Augustus, born to bring Saturnian times. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saturnianadjective

    of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age

  2. Saturnianadjective

    hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment

  3. Saturnianadjective

    of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year

  4. Saturniannoun

    any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus

  5. Etymology: [L. Saturnius.]

Wikidata

  1. Saturnian

    Saturnian meter or verse is an old Latin and Italic poetic form, of which the principles of versification have become obscure. Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive. 95 literary verses and partial fragments have been preserved as quotations in later grammatical writings, as well as 37 verses in funerary or dedicatory inscriptions. The majority of literary Saturnians come from the Odysseia, a translation/paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey by Livius Andronicus, and the Bellum Poenicum, an epic on the First Punic War by Gnaeus Naevius. The meter was moribund by the time of the literary verses and forgotten altogether by classical times, falling out of use with the adoption of the hexameter and other Greek verse forms. Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Greek hexameter in Latin, and dramatic meters seem to have been well on their way to domestic adoption in the works of his rough contemporary Plautus. These Greek verse forms were considered more sophisticated than the native tradition; Horace called the Saturnian horridus. Consequently, the poetry in this meter was not preserved. Cicero regretted the loss in his Brutus:

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saturnian in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of saturnian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of saturnian in a Sentence

  1. Scott Sheppard:

    I was so thrilled with the amount of public engagement over the Jupiter moon-naming contest that we've decided to do another one to name these newly discovered Saturnian moons, this time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology.

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