Etna

or Aet·na

[ et-nuh ]

/ ˈɛt nə /

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noun

Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).

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The map of Etna, which I have been just looking at, looks like a sudden falling in, does it not?
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II|Charles Darwin
Etna smoked forty-seven days, and emitted flame twenty-eight days.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things|Edmund Fillingham King
It is no use thinking you can see and behold Etna and the foreground both at once.
Sea and Sardinia|D. H. Lawrence
Bronte , a town in Sicily, on the western slope of Etna, which gave title of duke to Nelson.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia|Edited by Rev. James Wood

Several detachments, of fifty men each, are going up to the villages some three thousand feet up the slopes of Etna.
Out with Garibaldi|G. A. Henty

British Dictionary definitions for etna

Etna

/ (ˈɛtnə) /

noun

Mount Etna an active volcano in E Sicily: the highest volcano in Europe and the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps. Height: 3323 m (10 902 ft)

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Word Origin and History for etna

Etna

volcano in Sicily, from Latin Aetna, from an indigenous Sicilian language, *aith-na "the fiery one," from PIE *ai-dh-, from root *ai- "to burn" (see edifice).

Etna

or Aet·na

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