Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eneolithic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ene-olith-ic
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing the Copper Age, which occurred between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

name

The age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

adj

Alternative form of Eneolithic.

Example Sentences

"Perhaps linguists have provided a step towards the right solution in presenting evidence from Indo-European kinship terminology that the Indo-Europeans were very much into exogamy, including taking the Eneolithic equivalent of mail-order brides from afar."
"The spread of PIE has therefore been linked to a Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze-Age expansion of nomadic horse-riders and stock-breeders, visible in the archaeology of the Steppe."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian eneolitico, from Latin aeneus (“copper, bronze”).

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: eneolitico, aeneus

Inflected Forms

more Eneolithic (comparative) most Eneolithic (superlative) Aeneolithic (alternative) Æneolithic (alternative)

Synonyms

Chalcolithic Cyprolithic Copper Age

Questions

What does eneolithic mean?: Describing the Copper Age, which occurred between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
Where does eneolithic come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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