Sirius

English

Etymology

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs
• Homophone: serious

Proper noun

Sirius

1. (astronomy) A binary star system in the constellation Canis Major long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.

Synonyms

• the Dog Star (informal); Alpha Canis Majoris, α Canis Majoris, α CMa (Bayer designation); Canicula (Roman contexts); Sopdet, Sothis (Egyptian contexts); Al Shira (Arab contexts); Blazing Star (uncommon)

Hypernyms

• stars
• Canis Major; Winter Triangle

Hyponyms

• (white main sequence star): Sirius A
• (white dwarf): Sirius B

See also

• Sothic; canicular; cynic
• dog days, dogdays, dog day

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)
• Egyptian: spdt
• 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)

• Khmer: ផ្កាយព្រឹក (km) (pkaay prɨk)
• Korean: 천랑성 (ko) (Cheonnangseong) (天狼星 (ko)), 시리우스 (siriuseu)
• Latin: Canicula f, Sīrius (la) 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

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

Synonyms

• Canicula
• Sothis

Hyperonyms

• stellae; Canis Major, Canicula

References

• Sirius in Charlton T. Lewis and 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’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)