Neptune

English

Neptune astronomical symbol

Neptune astronomical symbol (alternate)

Etymology

From Latin Neptūnus, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist."

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛptjuːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛptuːn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Neptune

1. (Roman mythology) The god of the ocean and of earthquakes. The same as Poseidon in Greek mythology.
2. The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆.
3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
4. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Neptunian

Related terms

• Neptune City
• Neptune's cup
• Neptune powder

Translations

Roman god of the ocean

• Armenian: Նեպտուն (Neptun)
• Basque: Neptuno (eu)
• Catalan: Neptú m
• Cherokee: Ꮑ'ᏚᏂ (ne'duni)
• Cornish: Nevyon m
• Czech: Neptun (cs) m
• Danish: Neptun
• Esperanto: Neptuno (eo)
• Estonian: Neptunus, Neptun (et) (god in equator-crossing ceremonies)
• Finnish: Neptunus (fi)
• French: Neptune (fr) m
• Galician: Neptuno (gl) m
• Georgian: ნეპტუნი (neṗṭuni)
• German: Neptun (de) m
• Hawaiian: Nepekune
• Icelandic: Neptúnus (is) m
• Ido: Neptuno (io)
• Indonesian: Neptunus
• Irish: Neiptiún m
• Italian: Nettuno (it) m

• Japanese: ネプチューン (nepuchūn), ネプトゥヌス (neputunusu)
• Korean: 넵튠 (neptyun)
• Latin: Neptunus (la) m
• Latvian: Neptūns m
• Lithuanian: Neptūnas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Не́птун m (Néptun)
• Maori: Tangaroa
• Norman: Nepteune m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: Neptun (no)
• Persian: نپتون‏‎ (fa) (Neptun)
• Polish: Neptun (pl) m
• Portuguese: Netuno (pt) m
• Romanian: Neptun (ro) m
• Russian: Непту́н (ru) m (Neptún)
• Slovene: Neptún (sl) m
• Spanish: Neptuno (es) m
• Swahili: Neptuni
• Turkish: Neptün (tr)
• Welsh: Neifion (cy) m

eighth planet of the solar system

• Afrikaans: Neptunus
• Arabic: نِبْتُون‏‎ (niptūn)
• Armenian: Նեպտուն (Neptun)
• Azeri: Neptun (az)
• Bashkir: Нептун (Neptun)
• Basque: Neptuno (eu)
• Belarusian: Непту́н m (Njeptún), (Taraškievica orthography) Нэпту́н m (Neptún)
• Bengali: নেপচুন (nepcun)
• Burmese: နက်ပကျွန်း (nakpa.kywan:)
• Catalan: Neptú m
• Cherokee: Ꮑ'ᏚᏂ (ne'duni), ᏧᏁᎵᏁ ᎡᎶᎯ (tsuneline elohi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海王星 (hoi² wong⁴ sing¹)

  Mandarin: 海王星 (zh) (Hǎiwángxīng)

  Min Nan: 海王星 (Hái-ông-chheⁿ, Hái-ông-chhiⁿ)

• Cornish: Nevyon m
• Czech: Neptun (cs) m
• Danish: Neptun
• Dutch: Neptunus (nl) n
• Esperanto: Neptuno (eo)
• Estonian: Neptuun
• Faroese: Neptun m
• Finnish: Neptunus (fi)
• French: Neptune (fr) m
• Georgian: ნეპტუნი (neṗṭuni)
• German: Neptun (de) m
• Haitian Creole: Neptin
• Hawaiian: Nepekune
• Hebrew: נפטון‏‎ (he) m (néptun), רהב‏‎ (he) m (raháv)
• Hindi: वरुण (hi) (varuṇ)
• Icelandic: Neptúnus (is) m
• Ido: Neptuno (io)
• Indonesian: Neptunus
• Interlingua: Neptuno
• Inuktitut: ᓂᑉᑑᓐ (niptuun)
• Italian: Nettuno (it) m
• Japanese: 海王星 (ja) (かいおうせい, Kaiōsei), (katakana) ネプチューン (Nepuchūn), (katakana) ネプトゥーン (Neputūn)
• Kannada: ನೆಪ್ಚೂನ್ (nepcūn)
• Karakalpak: Neptun
• Kazakh: Нептун (Neptwn)
• Khmer: ភពណិបទូន (pʰup nəptuun), កេតុ (km) (ket)
• Korean: 해왕성 (ko) (haewangseong)
• Kyrgyz: Нептун (Neptun)

• Lao: ເນບຕູນ (nēp tūn)
• Latin: Neptunus (la) m
• Latvian: Neptūns m
• Lithuanian: Neptūnas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Не́птун m (Néptun)
• Malay: Neptun (ms)
• Malayalam: നെപ്റ്റ്യൂൺ (nepṟṟyūṇ)
• Maltese: Nettunu m
• Maori: Tangaroa
• Mongolian: Далайн ван (Dalajn van)
• Nahuatl: Tlāloccītlalli
• Navajo: Néʼtoon
• Norman: Nepteune m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: Neptun (no)
• Persian: نپتون‏‎ (fa) (Neptun)
• Polish: Neptun (pl) m
• Portuguese: Netuno (pt) m
• Romanian: Neptun (ro) m
• Russian: Непту́н (ru) m (Neptún)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нептун m

  Roman: Neptun (sh) m

• Slovak: Neptún m
• Slovene: Neptún (sl) m
• Spanish: Neptuno (es) m
• Swahili: Kausi (sw)
• Swedish: Neptunus (sv)
• Tagalog: Neptuno
• Tajik: Нептун (Neptun)
• Tamil: நெப்டியூன் (nepṭiyūṉ)
• Tatar: Neptun (tt)
• Telugu: నెప్త్యూన్ (neptyūn)
• Thai: ดาวเนปจูน (th) (daaw neep-juun), ดาวเกตุ (daaw gee-duu)
• Tibetan: སྐར་མ་མཚོ་རྒྱལ (skar ma mtsho rgyal)
• Turkish: Neptün (tr), Talayhan
• Turkmen: Neptun
• Uzbek: Neptun
• Vietnamese: Sao Hải Vương
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Neifion (cy) m
• Yakut: Нептун (Neptun)
• Yiddish: נעפּטון‏‎ m (neptun)

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Poseidon

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Etymology

From Latin Neptūnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛptyn/

• audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Neptune m

1. Neptune (Roman god of the sea)
2. Neptune (planet)