# Cimmerian
## English
### Etymology 1

From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) +‎ -an.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
* (US) IPA: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
* Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən, -ɪɹiən

#### Noun

Cimmerian (plural Cimmerians)
* (Greek mythology) Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.
** 1791, Homer, translated by William Cowper, The Odyssey of Homer:The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,
** 1900, Jack London, The Shrinkage of the Planet:On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals."
* one of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin
** c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian Doth make your honour of his body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable.
** 1902, Encyclopedia Britannica:The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century B.C. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia
** 1910, Herodotus (484 B.C.E.–425 B.C.E.), History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson
    In his reign the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomads of Scythia, entered Asia and captured Sardis
* (historical) the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.
** 1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 C.E.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher
    Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian...

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#### Adjective

Cimmerian (comparative more Cimmerian, superlative most Cimmerian)
* Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians.
* Characteristic of Cimmeria; especially describing particularly dense darkness etc.
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses.
** 2023, Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes‎, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 101:But the recent explosions had tapped just a fraction of Tambora’s compressed magma—the real paroxysm came five days later. Crawfurd, two islands away, was forced to conduct his daily affairs by candlelight as a gigantic ash cloud plunged the whole region into Cimmerian gloom.

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#### Proper noun

Cimmerian
* the language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch

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### Etymology 2

From Cimmeria +‎ -an.

#### Adjective

Cimmerian (not comparable)
* related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria