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Georgium Sidus en · PROPN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Geōrgium Sīdus. Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) The planet Uranus.
    • The satellites of the Georgium Sidus, too, appear to move nearly at right angles to the plane of his orbit […] 1821, James Ferguson, Astronomy, volume II, page 86:
    • The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone. 1812, Thomas Jefferson, letter, 17 June
    • I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus […] to a star, which (with respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign. 1783, William Herschel, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, section 73.2: