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Averno
[ uh-vur-noh; Italian ah-ver-naw ]
noun
- a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
Averno
/ aˈvɛrno /
noun
- a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hell Latin nameAvernusəˈvɜːnəs
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Averno1
from Latin, from Greek aornos without birds, from a- 1+ ornis bird; referring to the legend that the lake's sulphurous exhalations killed birds
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Example Sentences
Monte Nuovo,—is a mountain in the environs of Naples, which blocks up the valley of Averno.
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As we all know, facilis descensus Averno est, and any man with natural greed in his veins is subject to temptation.
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The motto, "Facilis descensus Averno," etc, epitomises the whole story.
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It is a little cone 430 feet high, on the bank of Lake Averno, with a crater more than a mile and a half wide at the base.
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"Facilis descensus Averno" is the motto over its downward path.
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