saturnia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Pain in a joint due to lead poisoning.
name
  1. A spa town in Tuscany, north-central Italy, that has been inhabited since ancient times.

Word forms

saturnia

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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