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語源

Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: ējē'ən, IPA: /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
• 韻: -iən

形容詞

Aegean (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it.
2. Of or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region.

派生語

• Aegean Islands
• Aegeanness

名詞

Aegean (plural Aegeans)

1. A shorthaired domestic cat originating from the Cyclades; an Aegean cat.

固有名詞

the Aegean

1. A sea between Greece and Anatolia north of Crete; a lobe of the Mediterranean; in full, Aegean Sea.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 166:

     Clytaemestra’s purpose to kill her husband had been locked in her heart long before the tidings had been flashed across the Aegean that his coming was at hand.

2. (geology) An age from 245 ± 1.5 to 244 million years ago, a subdivision of the Triassic.