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cimmerian

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CIMMERIAN

a.Pertaining to Cimmerium, a town at the mouth of the Palus Maeotis. The ancients pretended that this country was involved in darkness; whence the phrase Cimmerian darkness, to denote a deep or continual obscurity. The country is now called Crimea, or Krim-Tartary.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CIMMERIAN

Cim *me "ri *an, a. Etym: [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also Kimmerian. ]

 

1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

 

2. Without any light; intensely dark. In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Cimmerian

Cim me ri an |səˈmi (ə )rēən, -ˈmer- səˈmɪriən | adjective 1 relating to or denoting members of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century bc . 2 Greek Mythology relating to or denoting members of a mythical people who lived in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead. noun a member of the historical or mythological Cimmerian people. ORIGIN via Latin from Greek Kimmerios + -an .

 

Oxford Dictionary

Cimmerian

Cimmerian |sɪˈmɪərɪən | noun 1 a member of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century bc . 2 Greek Mythology a member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead. adjective relating to the Cimmerians. ORIGIN via Latin from Greek Kimmerios + -an .