Sirius

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος ‎(Seírios)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs
• Homophone: serious

Proper noun

Sirius

1. (astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.

Synonyms

• (bluish-white star): Al Shira, Blazing Star, Canicula, Dog Star

Translations

Translations

• Afrikaans: Sirius
• Arabic: اَلشِّعْرَى f ‎(aš-šiʿrā)
• Armenian: Սիրիուս ‎(Sirius)
• Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 ‎(Tištriia)
• Bengali: লুব্ধক ‎(lubdhôk)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天狼星 ‎(tin¹ long⁴ sing¹)

  Mandarin: 天狼星 (zh) ‎(Tiānlángxīng)

• Czech: Sirius
• Danish: Hundestjernen
• Dutch: Sirius (nl)
• Estonian: Siirius
• Finnish: Sirius
• French: Sirius (fr) m
• Georgian: სირიუსი ‎(siriusi)
• German: Sirius (de) m
• Greek: Σείριος (el) ‎(Seírios)
• Hebrew: אַבְרֵק ‎(avréq)
• Hindi: व्याध तारा ‎(vyādh tārā)
• Indonesian: Sirius
• Irish: Réalta an Mhadra f
• Italian: Sirio
• Japanese: 天狼星 ‎(てんろうせい, Tenrōsei), シリウス ‎(Shiriusu)
• Kazakh: Сүмбіле ‎(Sümbile)
• Korean: 천랑성 (ko) ‎(Cheonnangseong) (天狼星 (ko)), 시리우스 ‎(siriuseu)

• Latin: Canicula f, Sīrius m
• Latvian: Sīriuss
• Lithuanian: Sirijus
• Malay: Bintang Anjing, Sirius
• Maori: Takurua
• Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭱𐭲𐭫 ‎(Tištar), 𐭲𐭩𐭫 ‎(Tīr)
• Navajo: sǫʼtsoh
• Norman: Cannitchule f (Norman)
• Norwegian: Hundestjernen
• Persian: تیشتر (fa) ‎(Tištar), تیر (fa) ‎(Tir), شباهنگ (fa) ‎(Šabâhang)
• Polish: Syriusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sírio f
• Romanian: Sirius
• Russian: Си́риус (ru) m ‎(Sírius)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сиријус

  Roman: Sirius

• Spanish: Sirio (es) m
• Swedish: Sirius (sv) c, Hundstjärnan
• Thai: ดาวซิริอุส
• Turkish: Sirius, Akyıldız (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сіріус ‎(Sirius)
• Vietnamese: Thiên Lang, Sirius

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Faroese

Proper noun

Sirius m

1. A male given name.

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Sirius: Siriusarson or Siriusson
• daughter of Sirius: Siriusardóttir or Siriusdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Sirius
Accusative	Sirius
Dative	Siriusi
Genitive	Siriusar

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Sirius m ‎(genitive Sirius)

1. (astronomy) Sirius

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σείριος ‎(Seírios, “Seirios”), from σείριος ‎(seírios, “scorching, destructive”)

Proper noun

Sīrius m ‎(genitive Sīriī); second declension

1. (astronomy) Sirius

References

• Sirius in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sirius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Sirius in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.