Riphaean

English

Alternative forms

Riphæan
Riphean
Riphœan
Riphoean

Etymology

From Latin Rīphaeus +‎ -an. Compare Rhipaean.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪfɪən/, /ˈɹʌɪfɪən/

Adjective

Riphaean (not comparable)

(now historical) Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
  The substance, whereof she the body made, / Was purest snow in massy mould congeald, / Which she had gathered in a shady glade / Of the Riphœan hills […]

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