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Attis

British  
/ ˈætɪs /

noun

  1. classical myth a youth of Phrygia, loved by the goddess Cybele. In a jealous passion she caused him to go mad, whereupon he castrated himself and died

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On the morning before he was to report to the pool, Attis Clopton sat in a storefront breakfast spot near his Brooklyn apartment munching a glazed doughnut.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2014

Ms. Pailet said, “Now Attis, you’ve been scared of water your whole life?”

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2014

Katrina Attis, who was shopping at a J.C.

From Reuters • Dec. 24, 2013

"I'm doing my shopping on a budget, which is why I'm digging through the clearance bin," said Attis, 25.

From Reuters • Dec. 24, 2013

As in the Attis we find such word-formations as sonipedibus, silvicultrix, nemorivagus, so in this poem we have fluentisono, raucisonos, clarisona, flexamino, etc.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

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