of or relating to Pluto (the god) or the underworld; infernal
Plutonian in American English
(pluˈtoʊniən)
adjective
of or like Pluto or the infernal regions
Word origin
L Plutonius < Gr Ploutōnios
Plutonian in American English
(pluːˈtouniən)
adjective
Also: Plutonic (pluːˈtɑnɪk)
of, pertaining to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal
Word origin
[1660–70; ‹ L Plūtōni(us) (‹ Gk Plouto᷇nios, deriv. of Ploútōnpluto) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1660–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: adhesive, aspirate, interleave, joke, vocalize-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)