Definitions for Avernus

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Avernus A·ver·nus

Spelling: [uh-vur-nuh s]

IPA: /əˈvɜr nəs/

Avernus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in Avernus (aenrsuv).

Definitions for Avernus

noun

1. a lake near Naples, Italy, looked upon in ancient times as an entrance to hell, from whose waters vile-smelling vapors arose, supposedly killing birds flying over it.
2. hell.
3. a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.

Origin of Avernus

Latin Greek áornos birdless, equivalent to a- a-⁶ + órn(is) bird + -os adj. suffix

Examples for Avernus

In safety, as thou desirest, shall he reach the haven of Avernus.

Last night we ascended Avernus again, and did the usual guard on the summit.

Of which lesson her own history is a part, and her habitation by the Avernus lake.

But when they came to the mouth of Avernus, they sat both of them on a tree.

Fear not, therefore: he shall come safe to the haven of Avernus.

Decius followed, as he would have followed through the portals of Avernus.

It has been said with more truth than poetic fancy that the descent to Avernus is easy.

It should be "facilis descensus Averno," easy is the descent to Avernus.

What region of earth or what circle of Avernus arrests thee now?

But when they came to the mouth of Avernus, they sat both of them on the tree.