etna
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Definition of etna
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.
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name
- An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.
- A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
- A town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
- A river that flows through Etnedal and Nordre Land municipalities, Innlandet, Norway.
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A female given name from Irish.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:Etna.”
noun
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(archaic)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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the Latin Aetna, perhaps via the Italian Etna. From either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aið-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Aetna.
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