Copernicus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Copernicus.

Proper noun

Copernicus

1. Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

Derived terms

• Copernican
• copernicium

Translations

surname of Nicolaus Copernicus

• Arabic: كُوبِرْنِيكُوس m (kubirnikus)
• Bulgarian: Копе́рник m (Kopérnik)
• Catalan: Copèrnic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥白尼 (zh) (Gēbáiní)

• Czech: Koperník m
• Danish: Kopernikus
• Esperanto: Koperniko
• Finnish: Kopernikus
• German: Copernicus, Kopernikus m, Koppernick
• Greek: Κοπέρνικος (el) m (Kopérnikos)
• Hindi: कोपरनिकस (koparnikas)
• Italian: Copernico m
• Japanese: コペルニクス (Koperunikusu)
• Korean: 코페르니쿠스 (Kopereunikuseu)
• Persian: کوپرنیک (kupernik)
• Polish: Kopernik (pl) m
• Portuguese: Copérnico m
• Russian: Копе́рник (ru) m (Kopérnik)
• Spanish: Copérnico

Anagrams

• superconic

Latin

Alternative forms

• Coppernicus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈpɛr.nɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈpɛr.ni.kus]

Etymology 1

Latinized from Old Polish Kopernik + -us.

Proper noun

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

1. (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) a male surname from Polish — famously held by:
   1. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer and mathematician

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Copernicus
genitive	Copernicī
dative	Copernicō
accusative	Copernicum
ablative	Copernicō
vocative	Copernice

Descendants

• → Catalan: Copèrnic (learned)
• → English: Copernicus
• → German: Copernicus, Kopernikus

Etymology 2

Named after Prussian polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).

Proper noun

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

1. (astronomy) The star ρ1 Cancri in the constellation Cancer.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Copernicus
genitive	Copernicī
dative	Copernicō
accusative	Copernicum
ablative	Copernicō
vocative	Copernice