Selenite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).
Noun[edit]
Selenite (plural Selenites)
- (science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
- 1901, Herbert George Wells, “The Selenite's Face”, in The First Men in the Moon:
- My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.
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Translations[edit]
inhabitant of the Moon — see Lunarian
Adjective[edit]
Selenite (not comparable)
- (science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).
- a Selenite colony
- 1873, Jules Verne, “Round the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Chapter III. Their Place of Shelter.”, in Louis Mercier [i.e., Lewis Page Mercier], Eleanor E. King, transl., From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 170:
- "Come Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here."
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