英语词汇“averno”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	averno
释义	Averno enUK A·ver·no A0545400 (ä-vĕr′nō) Ancient name A·ver·nus (ə-vûr′nəs) A small crater lake of southern Italy near the Tyrrhenian Sea west of Naples. Because of its gloomy aspect and intense sulfuric vapors, now extinguished, the ancient Romans regarded it as the entrance to the underworld. A·ver′nal adj. Averno (Italian aˈvɛrno) n (Placename) a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hell. Latin name: Avernus [from Latin, from Greek aornos without birds, from a-¹ + ornis bird; referring to the legend that the lake's sulphurous exhalations killed birds] Averno enUK Averno (ävĕr`nō), anc. Avernus (əvûr`nəs) [Gr.,=without bird], small crater lake, .6 mi (.9 km) wide, Campania, S Italy, between Cuma and Puteoli, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. Its intense sulfuric vapors, caused by volcanic activity (now extinguished), supposedly killed the birds flying over it, hence its name. The ancient Romans, impressed by its vapors and its gloomy aspect, regarded it as the entrance to hell; later the name was used for hell itself. Near the lake its personification, the deus Avernus, was worshiped. Averno a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hell
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