saturnus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Saturn (“the god of fertility and agriculture”).
Example Sentences
- "The Saturnalia, named for Saturnus, an ancient agricultural deity, began on Dec. 17."
- "Saturnus, alone among the planet-gods, resisted Germanisation."
- "Its pages contain not just recipes but an idyll of prelapsarian plenty, passed down the generations by those who still connect with pagan forces: Saturnus and his groaning table, a Saturnalia from the Golden Age."
- "Saturn was named after Saturnus, the Roman god of farming, who with his sickle taught human beings when to sow and when to reap: the inevitable cycle of birth, growth and death. Saturnus was the Roman version of the Greek god Cronos, a Titan who, fearing his own overthrow, devoured all the children born to him."
Etymology
From Middle English Saturnus, from Latin Sāturnus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Saturnus, Sāturnus