English Explanatory Dictionary

Sirenaic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the celebrated Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen, a club that met at the Mermaid Tavern in Elizabethan London.

Word forms

Sirenaic Sirenaics

Etymology

From blending of siren + Cyrenaic (“inhabitant of the proverbially luxurious city of Cyrene or its territory Cyrenaica; adherent of the hedonistic philosophy of Aristippus of Cyrene”) and from conflation of the mythical siren with the legendary mermaid.

Derived words

Sirenaical
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