Medean

English

Etymology 1

From Mede +‎ -an.

Adjective

Medean (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Median.

Noun

Medean (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Median.

Etymology 2

From Medea +‎ -n.

Adjective

Medean (comparative more Medean, superlative most Medean)

  1. 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 […]
Translations

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.