Etna

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛtnə/
• Homophones: Aetna, etna

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From the Latin Aetna, perhaps via the Italian Etna. From either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aið-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Aetna.

• Ætna (archaic)

Etna

1. An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.

   Synonym: (in full) Mount Etna

2. A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
3. A town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

• etna
• Etnean

• Mount Etna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Etna, Maine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From the Norwegian Etna. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Etna

1. A river that flows through Etnedal and Nordre Land municipalities, Innlandet, Norway.

• Etna (river) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Possibly an anglicisation of Irish Eithne.This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Etna

1. A female given name from Irish.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Etna.

• Eithne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• tane, ante, ta'en, anet, NEAT, Aten, Neat, neta, Etan, ante-, Nate, neat, Tean, Ante, Tena

Borrowed from Latin Aetna, from either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aith-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛtna
• Hyphenation: Èt‧na

Etna m or f

1. Etna (a volcano in Sicily, Italy)

   Synonym: Mongibello

• Aetna/Αἴτνη (Aítnē) was anciently both a feminine toponym and a female nymph.
• It is both a volcano and a mountain, which locally are called u vurcanu/il vulcano (m.), u munti/il monte (m.), a muntagna/la montagna (f.).
• Nowadays local people percieved “It” as a feminine noun, prima facie, because it is named a Muntagna (and then italianized as la Montagna), secondly also because of the widespread use to refer at It by calling Her “mamma Etna”. Sometimes also the ending in “-a” could mislead some speaker about its grammatical gender.

• etneo

Etna f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Aetna (Sicilian nymph)
2. (historical) Aetna (ancient Sicilian city)

Etna m or f by sense

1. a surname

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

• -ante, ante, ante-, nate, tane

• Etne, Ætne

Latin Aetna

Etna m or f

1. Etna (volcano in Sicily, Italy)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Etna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Latin Aetna, from either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aith-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *ai-dh, from *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).

• Hyphenation: Et‧na

Etna m

1. Etna (a volcano in Sicily, Italy)

Etna f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Aetna (Sicilian nymph)
2. (historical) Aetna (ancient Sicilian city)