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Webster 1828 Edition

Adonia

ADO'NIA

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Noun.
Festivals celebrated anciently in honor of Adonis, by females, who spent two days in lamentations and infamous pleasures.

Definition 2024

adonia

adonia

Italian

Adjective

adonia

  1. feminine singular of adonio

Latin

Noun

adōnia

  1. nominative plural of adōnium
  2. accusative plural of adōnium
  3. vocative plural of adōnium

References

  • adonia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • adonia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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