Virgilian
adjective
Virgilian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-R-G-I-L-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Virgilian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Virgilian
- more Virgilian comparative
- most Virgilian superlative
- Vergilian
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Virgilian?
Virgilian appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Virgilian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to Virgil:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | virgilien |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Virgilian come from?
From Virgil + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).