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Etymology

From Latin Sāturnālia, interpreted as the Latin equivalent of Portuguese carnaval ‎(“Carnival (the period before Lent)”); so called because the genus was discovered in Brazil during Carnival.

Proper noun

Saturnalia ?

1. A taxonomic genus within the order Saurischia – a dinosaur from the Triassic period.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Saturnalia tupiniquim - the only species

English

Proper noun

Saturnalia

1. An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.
   • 1913, Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, chapter I:

     Saturn was an ancient Italian deity. It was attempted to identify him with the Grecian god Cronos, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, where he reigned during what was called the Golden Age. In memory of his beneficent dominion, the feast of Saturnalia was held every year in the winter season.

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Anagrams

• Australian

Latin

Etymology

From Sāturnus ‎(“Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saː.turˈnaː.li.a/, [saː.tʊrˈnaː.li.a]

Proper noun

Sāturnālia n pl ‎(genitive Sāturnālium); third declension

1. A festival of the winter solstice originally celebrated for three days beginning December 17th, but later extended to seven days.

Declension

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Derived terms

• nōn semper Sāturnālia erunt

Descendants

• English: saturnalia, Saturnalia

References

• Saturnalia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Saturnalia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Saturnalia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

saturnalia ‎(plural saturnalias)

1. A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 26

     They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.

   • 1922, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, ch 14

     If at the birth of the Latin kings their fathers were really unknown, the fact points either to a general looseness of life in the royal family or to a special relaxation of moral rules on certain occasions, when men and women reverted for a season to the licence of an earlier age. Such Saturnalias are not uncommon at some stages of social evolution.

   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XXVIII

     Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, ch 34

     It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.

   • 2001, Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys:

     We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.

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Related terms

• Saturn
• saturnalian
• saturnian

See also

• bacchanalia
• dionysia

Anagrams

• Australian