saturnia
Meanings
noun
- Pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.
name
- A spa town in Tuscany, north-central Italy, that has been inhabited since ancient times.
Word forms
Etymology
From Saturn + -ia after saturnism, a former name for lead poisoning derived from the association of the planet Saturn with lead in European alchemy.
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