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Etna

//ˈɛtnə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.
  2. 2
    A river that flows through Etnedal and Nordre Land municipalities, Innlandet, Norway.
  3. 3
    A female given name from Irish.

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Etna."

  4. 4
    A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
  5. 5
    A town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of small, portable cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. archaic

    "There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry."

  2. 2
    a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Latin Aetna, perhaps via the Italian Etna. From either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aið-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Aetna.

Etymology 2

From the Norwegian Etna.

Etymology 3

Possibly an anglicisation of Irish Eithne.

Etymology 4

After Mount Etna in Sicily.

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