Castalian
adjective
Castalian is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-S-T-A-L-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Castalian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.
Castalian spring
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Castalian
- Kastalian
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Castalian?
Castalian appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).