Sirius en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈsɪɹi.əs/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
Meanings
- A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
- (specifically) The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Deriveds
Holonyms
Hyponyms
the Pup (star system)
Relateds
dogdays · canicular · cynic · dog day · Sothic · dog days
Synonyms
α CMa (star system) · the Dog Star (star system) · α Canis Majoris A (brightest star) · Canicula (star system) · Shira (star system) · Sothis (star system) · α Canis Majoris (star system) · Blazing Star (star system) · Sopdet (star system) · Alpha Canis Majoris (star system)
Translations (76)
de Sirius (Translations) · tr Sirius (Translations) · ms Sirius (Translations) · hy Սիրիուս (Translations) · ga Réalta an Mhadra (Translations) · es Sirio (Translations) · lt Sirijus (Translations) · sdh گەلاوێژ (Translations) · fi Sirius (Translations) · hi व्याध तारा (Translations) · it Sirio (Translations) · he אַבְרֵק (Translations) · eo Siriuso (Translations) · ko 천랑성 (Translations) · vi Thiên Lang (Translations) · la Canicula (Translations) · km ផ្កាយព្រឹក (Translations) · gd Ruaill Mhòr (Translations) · pal 𐭲𐭩𐭱𐭲𐭫 (Translations) · ka სირიუსი (Translations) · sh Sirius (Translations) · nrf Cannitchule (Translations) · ky Сүмбүлө (Translations) · ro Sirius (Translations) · egy M44-t:sbA (Translations) · pt Sírio (Translations) · lv Sīriuss (Translations) · nv sǫʼtsoh (Translations) · nl Sirius (Translations) · grc Σείριος (Translations) · sv Hundstjärnan (Translations) · ar الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة (Translations) · el Σείριος (Translations) · la Sīrius (Translations) · sv Sirius (Translations) · af Sirius (Translations) · bg Сириус (Translations) · uk Сіріус (Translations) · mi Takurua (Translations) · ms Bintang Anjing (Translations) · no Hundestjernen (Translations) · ca estel del Ca (Translations) · non Lokabrenna (Translations) · ckb گەلاوێژ (Translations) · cmn 天狼星 (Translations) · ko 시리우스 (Translations) · fa تیر (Translations) · ang hār steorra (Translations) · kk Сүмбіле (Translations) · fa تیشتر (Translations) · ja シリウス (Translations) · vi Sirius (Translations) · de Hundsstern (Translations) · pal 𐭲𐭩𐭫 (Translations) · ae 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (Translations) · pl Syriusz (Translations) · id Sirius (Translations) · ca Sírius (Translations) · cy Seren y Ci (Translations) · da Hundestjernen (Translations) · ru Си́риус (Translations) · sw Shira (Translations) · et Siirius (Translations) · yue 天狼星 (Translations) · kmr Gelavêj (Translations) · cy Siriws (Translations) · bn লুব্ধক (Translations) · th ดาวซิริอุส (Translations) · fr Sirius (Translations) · fa شباهنگ (Translations) · sh Сиријус (Translations) · ja 天狼星 (Translations) · non Hundstjarna (Translations) · tr Akyıldız (Translations) · ar اَلشِّعْرَى (Translations) · cs Sirius (Translations)