Taygetan

English

Etymology 1

From Tayget(os) +‎ -an.

Adjective

Taygetan (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.
   • 1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:

     Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.

Etymology 2

From Taygeta +‎ -an.

Adjective

Taygetan (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.

Noun

Taygetan (plural Taygetans)

1. An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.

Hypernyms

• Pleiadean, Pleiadian

Finnish

Proper noun

Taygetan

1. genitive singular of Taygeta