sibylline

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
2. (broadly, not-comparable) Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
3. (broadly, not-comparable) Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
4. (not-comparable) Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)

Noun

One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.

Synonyms

sibyllic

cryptic

cryptical

enigmatical

mantic

cabalistic

divinatory

enigmatic

vatic

kabbalistic

qabalistic

vatical

sibylic

prophetic

prophetical

mystic

oracular

predictive

gnomic

Delphic

Translations

sibyllin

sibillino

sibyllinisch

helderziend

sibil·lí

görülemeyen şeyleri görebilen

sibilino

sibilino

hellseherisch

sibil·lític

sibillijns

προφητικός

cabalístic

σιβύλειος

präkognitiv

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/

Etymology

From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla.