Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Cerean en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) pertaining to Ceres
Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself. 1892, Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, published 2007, page 233:
If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis. 2012, Joop M. Houtkooper, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, →ISBN, page 168:
Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface. 1994, Hayford Peirce, “Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles”, in Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 45:
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Cerean en · NOUN
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A native or inhabitant of Ceres
"When they left, the men of Ceres counted their casualties. Fifteen Cereans were dead and many more hurt in one way or another, as against the bodies of five pirates." 1953, Isaac Asimov, Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids:
"Traveling by etheric-magnetic means, the comrades soon reached Ceres, where they find a couple of corpses, but no living Cereans." 1988, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: the Gernsback years, Kent State University Press, page 374: