Medean
English
Etymology 1
From Mede + -an.
Adjective
Medean (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Median
Noun
Medean (uncountable)
- Alternative form of Median
Etymology 2
From Medea + -n.
Adjective
Medean (comparative more Medean, superlative most Medean)
- Of, or pertaining to, Medea from Greek mythology.
- 2005, Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, ch. 2, "Tragic Virgil: The Medea", page 50
- As Dido was (among other things) a tragic and a Medean character in those passages in Virgil, so now Medea can seem Didonian […]
- 2005, Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, ch. 2, "Tragic Virgil: The Medea", page 50
Related terms
- Medea
Translations
of, or pertaining to, Medea
Anagrams
- Nadeem, amende, amened, demean, dename, meaned