Parnassian

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to Parnassus, as the source of literary (especially poetic) inspiration; (hence) of or belonging to poetry, poetic.
• From Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings: describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.
• Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment.
• Of, relating to, or designating papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius (genus) or the subfamily Parnassiinae (subfamily), consisting of the apollo butterflies.

Noun

• A poet.
• A French poet of the Parnassianism movement.
• A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae; an apollo butterfly.

Origin

• From Parnassus, from Latin Parnassus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός.