Riphaean

English

Alternative forms

• Riphæan
• Riphean
• Riphœan
• Riphoean

Etymology

From Latin Rīphaeus +‎ -an. Compare Rhipaean.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪfɪən/, /ˈɹʌɪfɪən/

Adjective

Riphaean (not comparable)

1. (now historical) Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The substance, whereof she the body made, / Was purest snow in massy mould congeald, / Which she had gathered in a shady glade / Of the Riphœan hills […]

Anagrams

• aphrenia