Riphaeanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Rīphaeus +‎ -an. Compare Rhipaean.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹɪfɪən/, /ˈɹʌɪfɪən/

形容詞

Riphaean (not comparable)

1. (now historical) Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The substance, whereof she the body made, / Was purest snow in massy mould congeald, / Which she had gathered in a shady glade / Of the Riphœan hills […]

固有名詞

the Riphaean

1. (geology) An age from 1650 to 650 million years ago, a subdivision of the Proterozoic.

アナグラム

• aphrenia