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Arcady
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See also: arcady
English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).
Proper noun
Arcady
- (poetic) Arcadia, an ancient region of Greece with a tradition of rural, bucolic innocence.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 40:
- […] And many an old philosophy
On Argive heights divinely sang,
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
Etymology 2
From Russian Арка́дий (Arkádij). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos cognate with Ursula.
Proper noun
Arcady
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Арка́дий (Arkádij).
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