Main Entry:

Par·nas·si·an

Pronunciation:

\pär-ˈna-sē-ən\

Function:

adjective

Date:

1629

1 [Latin parnassius of Parnassus, from Greek parnasios, from Parnasos Parnassus, mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses] : of or relating to poetry2 [French parnassien, from Parnasse Parnassus; from Le Parnasse contemporain (1866), an anthology of poetry] : of or relating to a school of French poets of the second half of the 19th century emphasizing metrical form rather than emotion

— Parnassian noun