The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aquitanian \Aq`ui*ta"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.
Wikipedia
The Aquitanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the oldest age or lowest stage in the Miocene. It spans the time between 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma and 20.43 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago) during the Early Miocene. It is a dry, cooling period. The Aquitanian succeeds the Chattian (the youngest age of the Oligocene) and precedes the Burdigalian.
The Aquitanian age overlaps with the Harrisonian, Agenian, Pareora, Landon, Otaian, and Waitakian ages from various regional timescales.
Aquitanian could refer to:
- Aquitanian age, a geological age, the first stage of the Miocene Epoch
- Aquitanian language, an ancient language spoken in the region later known as Gascony
- Anything originating from Aquitaine, a region of France.
Usage examples of "aquitanian".
Those Celtic tribes occupying modern Brittany were much smaller and darker than other Celts, as were many Aquitanian tribes.
Sulpicius Severusi an Aquitanian by birth, speaks of the trial, condemnation and punishment of the Priscillian heretics by the secular Court at Treves in the year 389.
Jokingly he has called himself the Aquitanian Bastard and Vera too has laughed.
Vera calls an Aquitanian Bastard, but you got me there afraid of being frightened.
The council was held on the banks of the river the Aquitanians call the Aturis.
Jean Pied-du-Port the country was mottled with the white tents of Gascons, Aquitanians and English, all eager for the advance.
The Gauls, Aquitanians, and Britons, all possessing, as Csesar testifies, separate governments and different nationalities, regarded one another as distinct races.
Bodichon claims that the Iberians embraced the Ligurians, Cantabrians, Asturians, and Aquitanians.