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saturnia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables
sat-ur-nia
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.

Uncountable

name

A spa town in Tuscany, north-central Italy, that has been inhabited since ancient times.

Etymology

From Saturn + -ia after saturnism, a former name for lead poisoning derived from the association of the planet Saturn with lead in European alchemy.

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Questions

What does saturnia mean?
Pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.
Where does saturnia come from?
From Saturn + -ia after saturnism, a former name for lead poisoning derived from the association of the planet Saturn with lead in European alchemy.

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