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Sibylline

Definitions: Sibylline

Sibylline

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions".

2. Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sibylline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Sibylline \Sib"yl*line\, adjective. [Latin expression sibyllinus.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Sibylline

Synonyms: cabalistic (adj), cryptic (adj), cryptical (adj), divinatory (adj), mantic (adj), sibyllic (adj), vatic (adj), vatical (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sibylline

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Oracle

Noun: oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter.

Prediction

Adjective: predicting;Verb: predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sibylline

English words defined with "sibylline": cabalistic, cryptic, crypticaldivinatorymanticQuindecemvirSibylist, sibyllic, Sibylline booksvatic, vatical. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sibylline": AmalthaeaSibylline Leaves, Sibyls. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sibylline

DomainTitle

Books

  • Jews in the Hellenistic World : Josephus, Aristeas, The Sibylline Oracles, Eupolemus (reference)

  • Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle (Oxford Classical Monographs) (reference)

  • Sibylline Leaves 1817 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834) (reference)

  • Sibylline Oracles (Great Works of Philosophy, Volume 7) (reference)

  • Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sibylline

"Sibylline" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Sibylline" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sibylline

Expression using "sibylline": Sibylline books. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sibylline

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sibylline oracle

4

book sibylline

2

sibylline

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sibylline

Language Translations for "sibylline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Profetik (fateful, fatidical, oracular, orphic, predictive, vatic). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Пророчески. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Σιβύλειοσ, ροφητικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Szibilliai. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ibyllinesay

   

Portuguese

  

Sibilino. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Sibilic. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Пророческий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sibilski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Sibilino. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Kehanetle Ýlgili, Kehanet Gibi (oracular, prophetic, prophetical), Kehanet (augury, denouncement, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, portent, prediction, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, second sight, soothsaying, vaticination), Gizli Anlamlı (oracular). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Пророчий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sibylline

Misspellings

"Sibylline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabellian, sibyline, Sibylla. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sibylline"

Words rhyming with "sibylline" (pronounced 'Sib"yl*line'): Acauline, Acervuline, Aline, Alkaline, Amygdaline, Anticline, Aquiline, Baculine, Bandoline, Benzoline, Berylline, Bowline, Bubaline, Buntline, Caballine, Cappeline, Capreoline, Cauline, Choline, Chrysaniline, Cinnoline, Circuline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Corolline, Corrovaline, Cosmoline, Crepusculine, Crinoline, Crotaline, Cryptocrystalline, Flavaniline, Fringilline, Gantline, Ghibelline, Girtline, Glyoxaline, headline, indiscipline, Leucaniline, Leucoline, Limicoline, Lobeline, Lurchline, marteline, masculine, Mauvaniline, Melaniline, Microcline. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sibylline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-l-l-n-s-y"

-2 letters: billies, bylines.

-3 letters: billie, blinis, byline, libels, lilies, linsey, lysine, nielli, sileni.

-4 letters: bells, belly, biles, bills, billy, bines, blini, inbye, lenis, libel, liens, lines, liney, lisle, lysin, nelly, nills, nisei, sibyl, silly, slily, snell, yells, yills.

-5 letters: bell, bels, bens, beys, bile, bill, bine, bins, bise, blin, byes, ells, ibis, ills, illy, inby.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-l-l-n-s-y"
 

+3 letters: blisteringly.

 

+4 letters: bisectionally.

 

+5 letters: spellbindingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sibylline


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 62 79 6C 6C 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    -...    -.--.    .-..    .-..    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01100010 01111001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#98 &#121 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0062 0079 006C 006C 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537568917878758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Grieks, Griek, ‏الإغريقي, ‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek;
Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Roemeen, rumun, Rumanu, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Romanyan, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, rumenskt, romanialainen, roumain, Roemeensk, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, romanés, român, румын, румынский, rumunski, rumunski jezik, rumano, rumänsk, румунська мова, румун, румунський, румунка, for Romanian;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, for Serbo-Croatian;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;