Saturnals
English
Etymology
From Middle French saturnales, saturnelles.[1] By surface analysis, Saturnal + -s.
Proper noun
Saturnals or the Saturnals pl (plural only)
- Synonym of Saturnalia (“ancient Roman holiday”).
- 1603, Plutarch, “Of the Tranquillity and Contentment of Minde”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 161:
- In which feaſts and ſolemnities, we uſe to ſit with great contentment of minde, arraied decently according to our degree and calling, (for […] no man hungreth or faſteth during the Saturnals:) […]
Related terms
References
- ^ “saturnal, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.