Scorpio

See also: scorpio

Translingual

Etymology

Latin scorpio (“a type of scorpion”)

Proper noun

Scorpio m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scorpionidae – Scorpio maurus, a deep-burrowing scorpion of the Middle East and north Africa.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Chelicerata - subphylum; Arachnida - class; Scorpiones - order; Neoscorpionina - suborder; Scorpionidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Scorpio maurus - type species; for other species see Scorpionidae at The Scorpion files.

References

• Scorpio maurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scorpio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Scorpio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Scorpionidae at The Scorpion files

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English

Signs of the Zodiac

Libra		Sagittarius
English Wikipedia has an article about Scorpio.

Alternative forms

• Scorpius

Etymology

From Latin scorpiō (“scorpion”). Doublet of scorpion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskɔːpɪəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɔːɹpɪoʊ/

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Proper noun

Scorpio

1. (astronomy): Scorpius (♏)
2. (astrology): The zodiac sign for the scorpion, ruled by Mars and covering October 23 - November 22 (tropical astrology) or November 16 - December 15 (sidereal astrology).

Translations

constellation — see Scorpius

astrological sign

• Albanian: Akrepi m
• Arabic: بُرْج اَلْعَقْرَب‎ (burj al-ʿaqrab), اَلْعَقْرَب‎ m (al-ʿaqrab)
• Armenian: Կարիճ (Karič)
• Asturian: Escorpión
• Azerbaijani: Əqrəb
• Breton: Krug
• Burmese: ဗြိစ္ဆာ (my) (brichca)
• Catalan: Escorpió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天蠍座, 天蝎座 (tin¹ kit³ zo⁶)

  Mandarin: 天蠍座 (zh), 天蝎座 (zh) (tiānxiēzuò)

• Cornish: an Skorpion ?
• Czech: Štír (cs) m
• Danish: Skorpionen
• Finnish: Skorpioni (fi)
• French: Scorpion (fr) m
• Georgian: ღრიანკალი (ɣrianḳali)
• German: Skorpion (de) m
• Greek: Σκορπιός (el) m (Skorpiós)

  Ancient: Σκορπίος m (Skorpíos)

• Hebrew: עַקְרָב‎ (he) m ('akráv)
• Hindi: वृश्चिक (hi) m (vŕścik), बिच्छू (hi) m (bicchū), अकरब (hi) m (akrab)
• Hungarian: Skorpió (hu)
• Irish: an Scairp f
• Italian: Scorpione (it) m
• Japanese: 天蝎宮 (ja) (てんかつきゅう, tenkatsukyū)

• Kazakh: Сарышаян (Sarışayan)
• Khmer: វិច្ឆិកា (km) (vɨcchekaa)
• Korean: 천갈궁 (ko) (cheon-galgung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Dûpişk (ku)

• Luxembourgish: Skorpioun m
• Macedonian: Шкорпија f (Škorpija)
• Malay: Kala, Akrab, Skorpio
• Maltese: Skorpjun m
• Norwegian: Skorpionen (no) m
• Persian: کژدم‎ (fa) (každom)
• Polish: Skorpion (pl) m
• Portuguese: Escorpião (pt) m
• Romanian: Scorpion (ro)
• Russian: Скорпио́н (ru) m (Skorpión)
• Sanskrit: वृश्चिक (sa) m (vṛścika)
• Scottish Gaelic: an Sgairp f
• Slovak: Škorpión m, Šťúr m
• Slovene: Škorpijon (sl) m
• Spanish: Escorpio
• Swahili: Akarabu, Nge
• Tagalog: Alakdan
• Tajik: Ақраб (Aqrab)
• Telugu: వృశ్చికరాశి (te) (vr̥ścikarāśi), వృశ్చికము (te) (vr̥ścikamu), వృశ్చికం (te) (vr̥ścikaṃ)
• Thai: พิจิก (pí-jìk)
• Turkish: Akrep (tr)
• Uzbek: Aqrab
• Welsh: y Sgorpion m or f

Noun

Scorpio (plural Scorpios)

1. Someone with a Scorpio star sign

Antonyms

• Taurus

Translations

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

• Catalan: escorpió (ca) m or f, escorpí (ca) m or f
• Danish: skorpion (da) c

• Hindi: वृश्चिक (hi) m (vŕścik)
• Portuguese: escorpiano

See also

• (Western astrology signs) Western astrology sign; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces ^{(Category: en:Astrology)}