sibylline
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean…Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Значення
значень: 4(без ступенів порівняння)Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
(ширше, без ступенів порівняння)Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
(ширше, без ступенів порівняння)Occult, mysterious.
(без ступенів порівняння)Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
- having a secret or hidden meaning
Походження
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
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Синоніми
синонімів: 11- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy:divinatorymanticsibyllicvaticvatical
- having a secret or hidden meaning:cabalistickabbalisticqabalisticcrypticcryptical