meteor
English
Etymology
From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).
The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
meteor (plural meteors)
- (now meteorology) An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars). [from 16th c.]
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- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 10:
- The twilight, the meteors call'd fire-balls, or flying dragons, and the northern lights, inhabit the higher regions of the atmosphere.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- A meteor in the hazy air / Play’d before his path; / Before him now it roll’d / A globe of livid fire […] Anon to Thalaba it mov’d, / And wrapt him in its pale innocuous fire.
- A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. [from 16th c.]
- (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
- (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
- (figurative) Any short-lived source of wonderment.
Usage notes
- (streak of light in night sky): Not to be confused with meteoroid and meteorite (cause and remains of a meteor), or asteroid and comet (celestial bodies).
Quotations
- p. 1859 December Herman Melville, “The Portent (1859)”
- But the streaming beard is shown
- (Weird John Brown),
- The meteor of the war.
Synonyms
- (streak of light in night sky): falling star, shooting star, faxed star
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
meteor
Translations
streak of light
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juggling prop
striking weapon
Verb
meteor (third-person singular simple present meteors, present participle meteoring, simple past and past participle meteored)
- (intransitive) To move at great speed.
Further reading
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
meteor m (plural meteors)
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
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- meteor (fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)
See also
Further reading
Hungarian
Etymology
From English meteor or German Meteor.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
meteor (plural meteorok)
- (astronomy) meteor (a fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | meteor | meteorok |
| accusative | meteort | meteorokat |
| dative | meteornak | meteoroknak |
| instrumental | meteorral | meteorokkal |
| causal-final | meteorért | meteorokért |
| translative | meteorrá | meteorokká |
| terminative | meteorig | meteorokig |
| essive-formal | meteorként | meteorokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | meteorban | meteorokban |
| superessive | meteoron | meteorokon |
| adessive | meteornál | meteoroknál |
| illative | meteorba | meteorokba |
| sublative | meteorra | meteorokra |
| allative | meteorhoz | meteorokhoz |
| elative | meteorból | meteorokból |
| delative | meteorról | meteorokról |
| ablative | meteortól | meteoroktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
meteoré | meteoroké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
meteoréi | meteorokéi |
| Possessive forms of meteor | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | meteorom | meteorjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | meteorod | meteorjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | meteorja | meteorjai |
| 1st person plural | meteorunk | meteorjaink |
| 2nd person plural | meteorotok | meteorjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | meteorjuk | meteorjaik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- meteor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron).
Noun
meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorer, definite plural meteorene)
- a meteor
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “meteor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron).
Noun
meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorar, definite plural meteorane)
- a meteor
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “meteor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
meteor m inan
Declension
Declension of meteor
Further reading
- meteor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- meteor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Italian meteora or French météore or German Meteor.
Noun
meteor m (plural meteori)
- meteor (streak of light caused by extraterrestrial matter entering the atmosphere)
Declension
Declension of meteor
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) meteor | meteorul | (niște) meteori | meteorii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) meteor | meteorului | (unor) meteori | meteorilor |
| vocative | meteorule | meteorilor | ||
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
metèōr m (Cyrillic spelling метѐо̄р)
Declension
Declension of meteor
Swedish
Noun
meteor c
Declension
Declension of meteor
Related terms
See also
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French météorite.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: me‧te‧or
Noun
meteor (definite accusative meteoru, plural meteorlar)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meteor”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
See also
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