cosmos
See also: Cosmos
English
Etymology 1
From Latinized form of Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order, proper order of the world”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmoses or cosmoi)
- The universe.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine[1]:
- "Can you conceive a process by which you, an organic being, are in the same way dissolved into the cosmos, and then by a subtle reversal of the conditions reassembled once more?"
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
- The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
- 2013 August 24, “A problem of cosmic proportions”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
- In Dr Wetterich’s picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.
- An ordered, harmonious whole.
- 1890, S.B. Palmer, “Matter and force in the oral cavity”, in The Dental Cosmos, volume XXXII, page 538:
- This simple cell is a cosmos in this respect : it represents the laws of the universe in changes of matter, and clearly exemplifies their workings in the oral cavity.
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Translations
the universe
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an ordered, harmonious whole
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Etymology 2
From the genus name Cosmos.
Pronunciation
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Noun
cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmos)
- Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
- 1838, George B. Knowles and Frederic Westcott, The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany[2], volume 2, page 3:
- COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS. (Various-leaved Cosmos.)
- 1842, Jane Loudon, Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals[3], page 185:
- It was first described and figured in 1797, by Cavanilles, who called it Cosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos, beautiful ; but this name was afterwards altered by Willdenow to Cosmea, as being more consistent with the rules of botanical nomenclature.
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
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Noun
cosmos
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).
Noun
cosmos m (invariable)
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Further reading
- “cosmos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cosmos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cosmos” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cosmos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).
Pronunciation
Noun
cosmos m (uncountable)
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Further reading
- “cosmos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
cosmos m (invariable)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
cosmos n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of cosmos (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) cosmos | cosmosul |
genitive/dative | (unui) cosmos | cosmosului |
vocative | cosmosule |
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cosmos m (plural cosmos)
- universe
- space (area beyond the atmosphere of planets)
- Synonym: espacio
- cosmos (herbs of the genus Cosmos)
Related terms
Anagrams
Further reading
- “cosmos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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