vergina sun
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sixteen-rayed solar symbol first appearing in Ancient Greek art between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC, tentatively interpreted as a royal symbol of ancient Macedonia.
Etymology
Named after the archaeological excavations in and around the small town of Vergina, in northern Greece, during the late 1970s.