Celsius

See also: celsius and célsius

English

Etymology

After Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlsiːəs/

Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

1. Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0° and its boiling point as 100°, 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

• centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)
• centesimal

Translations

related to a metric scale of temperature

• Arabic: سِيلْزْيُوس‎ m (sīlzyus), سَلْسْيُوس‎ m (salsyus)
• Belarusian: Цэльсій m (Cél’sij)
• Bulgarian: Целзий 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) m
• Hebrew: צלסיוס‎ (tselsius)
• Indonesian: Celsius
• Japanese: 摂氏 (ja) (せっし, Sesshi), セルシウス (Serushiusu)

• Korean: 섭씨 (ko) (Seopssi) (攝氏 (ko)), 셀시우스 (Selsiuseu)
• Macedonian: Целзиус (Célzius)
• Malay: Celsius, sentigred
• Maori: henekereti, whakarautanga, tohurau
• Persian: سلسیوس‎
• 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: Цельсій m (Cél’sij)
• Vietnamese: độ Celsius, độ bách phân (vi)

See also

• degree Celsius
• Fahrenheit
• kelvin

Further reading

• Entry for "degree Celsius" in How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Anagrams

• sluices

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselsːiu̯s/, [ˈs̠e̞ls̠ːiu̯s̠]

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

Derived terms

• celsius
• celsiusaste
• celsiusasteikko

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• celsius

Noun

Celsius m (uncountable)

1. Celsius

Synonyms

• centígrado

Further reading

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