Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mount erebus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English

Syllables: moun-t ere-bus
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A volcano in Ross Island, Ross Dependency, Antarctica; known for being the southernmost active volcano.

name

A mountain in Alberta, Canada.

Etymology

By surface analysis, mount + Erebus. From Latin Erebus (“Greek personification of darkness”) and Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος / ἔρεβος (Érebos / érebos, “personification of darkness; darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos (“darkness”), and Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ- (“to be dark”). * (sense 1): Coined by British explorer and naval officer James Clark Ross in 1841 after his ship, the HMS Erebus. * (sense 2): Coined by Canadian park ranger Morrison Parsons Bridgland in 1916 after the dark coloration of the mountain.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: Erebus, Ἔρεβος / ἔρεβος, *h₁régʷos, *h₁regʷ-

Subject

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Inflected Forms

Erebus (alternative)

Questions

What does mount erebus mean?: A volcano in Ross Island, Ross Dependency, Antarctica; known for being the southernmost active volcano.
Where does mount erebus come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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