Celsius

See also: celsius and célsius

English

Etymology

Named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, Latin celsus (“mound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlsiəs/

• Audio (UK)

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Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

1. Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to ¹⁄_273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.

   Synonyms: (dated) centigrade, centesimal

   Coordinate terms: Fahrenheit, kelvin, Réaumur

Derived terms

• degree Celsius

Translations

related to a metric scale of temperature

• Arabic: سِيلْزْيُوس‎ m (sīlzyus), سَلْسْيُوس‎ m (salsyus)
• Belarusian: Цэ́льсій m (Célʹsij)
• Bulgarian: Це́лзий m (Célzij)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 攝氏, 摄氏 (sip³ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 攝氏 (zh), 摄氏 (zh) (Shèshì)

  Min Nan: 攝氏, 摄氏 (Liap-sī)

• Dutch: Celsius (nl)
• Esperanto: Celsio
• Finnish: celsius
• French: Celsius (fr) m
• Georgian: ცელსიუსი (celsiusi)
• German: Celsius (de) n
• Hebrew: צלסיוס‎ (tselsius)
• Indonesian: Celsius
• Japanese: 摂氏 (ja) (せっし, Sesshi), セルシウス (Serushiusu)

• Korean: 섭씨(攝氏) (ko) (Seopssi), 셀시우스 (Selsiuseu)
• Macedonian: Целзиус (Celzius)
• Malay: Celsius, sentigred
• Maori: henekereti, whakarautanga, tohurau
• Persian: سلسیوس‎ (selsyus)
• Portuguese: célsius, centígrado (pt)
• Russian: Це́льсий (ru) m (Célʹsij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Целзијус m

  Roman: Celzijus m

• Spanish: Celsius m
• Swedish: (grader (sv)) Celsius (sv)
• Tagalog: sentigrado
• Ukrainian: Це́льсій m (Célʹsij)
• Vietnamese: độ Celsius, độ bách phân (vi)

Further reading

• Celsius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• "Celsius, Anders". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 609

Anagrams

• sluices

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselsːius/, [ˈs̠e̞ls̠ːius̠]

Noun

Celsius

1. The letter "C" in the Finnish tavausaakkoset, a spelling system similar to ICAO spelling alphabet.
2. A surname​.

Declension

Inflection of Celsius (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		Celsius	Celsiukset
genitive		Celsiuksen	Celsiusten Celsiuksien
partitive		Celsiusta	Celsiuksia
illative		Celsiukseen	Celsiuksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		Celsius	Celsiukset
accusative	nom.	Celsius	Celsiukset
	gen.	Celsiuksen
genitive		Celsiuksen	Celsiusten Celsiuksien
partitive		Celsiusta	Celsiuksia
inessive		Celsiuksessa	Celsiuksissa
elative		Celsiuksesta	Celsiuksista
illative		Celsiukseen	Celsiuksiin
adessive		Celsiuksella	Celsiuksilla
ablative		Celsiukselta	Celsiuksilta
allative		Celsiukselle	Celsiuksille
essive		Celsiuksena	Celsiuksina
translative		Celsiukseksi	Celsiuksiksi
instructive		—	Celsiuksin
abessive		Celsiuksetta	Celsiuksitta
comitative		—	Celsiuksineen

Possessive forms of Celsius (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Celsiukseni	Celsiuksemme
2nd person	Celsiuksesi	Celsiuksenne
3rd person	Celsiuksensa

Derived terms

• celsius
• celsiusaste
• celsiusasteikko

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛlzi̯ʊs/

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Noun

Celsius n (genitive Celsius, plural Celsius)

1. Celsius

Declension

Declension of Celsius

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Celsius	die	Celsius
genitive	eines	des	Celsius	der	Celsius
dative	einem	dem	Celsius	den	Celsius
accusative	ein	das	Celsius	die	Celsius

Further reading

• “Celsius” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Celsius” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Celsius” in Duden online
• Celsius on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• celsius

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθelsjus/, [ˈθel.sjus]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈselsjus/, [ˈsel.sjus]

Noun

Celsius m (uncountable)

1. Celsius

   Synonym: centígrado

Derived terms

• grado Celsius

 

Further reading

• “Celsius” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.