English Explanatory Dictionary

Mount Erebus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A volcano in Ross Island, Ross Dependency, Antarctica; known for being the southernmost active volcano.
  2. A mountain in Alberta, Canada.

Pronunciation

ĕ′rĭ-bəs ĕr′ə-bəs

Word forms

Mount Erebus Erebus

Etymology

By surface analysis, mount + Erebus. From Latin Erebus (“Greek personification of darkness”) and Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος / ἔρεβος (Érebos / érebos, “personification of darkness; darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos (“darkness”), and Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ- (“to be dark”). * (sense 1): Coined by British explorer and naval officer James Clark Ross in 1841 after his ship, the HMS Erebus. * (sense 2): Coined by Canadian park ranger Morrison Parsons Bridgland in 1916 after the dark coloration of the mountain.

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