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''Aegean'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260124004559-00-⌔
Aegean - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Adjective
Aegean (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it.
- Of or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region.
Noun
Aegean (plural Aegeans)
- A shorthaired domestic cat originating from the Cyclades; an Aegean cat.
Proper noun
the Aegean
- A sea between Greece and Anatolia north of Crete; a lobe of the Mediterranean; in full, Aegean Sea.
- ✤ Clytaemestra’s purpose to kill her husband had been locked in her heart long before the tidings had been flashed across the Aegean that his coming was at hand.1
- (geology) An age from 245 ± 1.5 to 244 million years ago, a subdivision of the Triassic.
Etymology
Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: ējē’ən, IPA: /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
- Rhymes: -iən
- Audio (US): 🔊
Printed 2026-06-28.
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Link to original Footnotes
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 166: ↩
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