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Etna

Et′na

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Noun.
A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
There should certainly be an
etna
for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry.
V. Baker.

Definition 2024


Etna

Etna

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English

Mount Etna with the city of Catania in the foreground

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Etna

  1. (frequently, more fully, Mount Etna) An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Catania, between Messina and Catania.
    • 1727, Edward Young, The Universal Passion, satire VI: “On Women”, verse 5, lines 43–48 (page 127):
      ZARA reſembles Ætna crown’d with Snows; // Without ſhe freezes, and within ſhe glows; // Twice ere the Sun deſcends, with Zeal inspir’d, // From the vain Converſe of the World retir’d, // She reads the Pſalms and Chapters for the Day // In ------ Cleopatra, or the laſt new Play.
  2. A town in Penobscot County, Maine, USA.
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From the Norwegian Etna.

Proper noun

Etna

  1. A river that flows through Etnedal and Nordre Land municipalities in Oppland, Norway.
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Possibly an anglicisation of Irish Eithne.

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Etna

  1. A female given name
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Etna f

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Aetna (Sicilian nymph)
  2. (historical) Aetna (ancient Sicilian city)

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Etna m

  1. Etna (a volcano in Sicily, Italy)

etna

etna

See also: Etna

English

Noun

etna (plural etnas)

  1. A kind of small, portable cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
    There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.