English
Riphaean
Riphaean comes from Latin Rīphaeus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CERīphaeus
- Englishearliest quotation 1590Riphaean
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CERīphaeus
- Englishearliest quotation 1590Riphaean
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto VIII: “The substance, whereof she the body made, / Was…”
Formed from -an
Every English word from Latin Rīphaeus
Today it means
adj Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Rīphaeus / Riphaean