cosmic

See also: còsmic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱens-der.

Proto-Hellenic *kónsmos

Ancient Greek κόσμ(ος) (kósm(os))

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)

Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós)bor.

English cosmic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏz'mĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.mɪk/

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• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.mɪk/

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.mɪk/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔz.mɪk/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.mək/, [ˈkɔ̟z.mək]

Adjective

cosmic (comparative more cosmic, superlative most cosmic)

1. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
2. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.

   cosmic speed

   • 1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683:

     The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.

3. Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:

     Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.

   • 1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272:

     “It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”

4. (astronomy, dated) Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

Derived terms

• acosmic
• anthropocosmic
• astrocosmic
• biocosmic
• cosmically
• cosmic background
• cosmic background radiation
• cosmic bowling
• cosmic calendar
• cosmic censorship
• cosmic censorship hypothesis
• cosmic disco
• cosmic dust
• cosmic egg
• cosmic event horizon
• cosmic gravitational wave background
• cosmic gravitational-wave background
• cosmic infrared background
• cosmic irony
• cosmicism
• cosmicist
• cosmicity
• cosmicize
• cosmic joker
• cosmic latte
• cosmic light horizon
• cosmic microwave background
• cosmic neutrino background
• cosmic radiation
• cosmic ray
• cosmic singularity
• cosmic string
• cosmic teapot
• cosmic time
• cosmic wall
• cosmic web
• cosmic year
• first cosmic velocity
• geocosmic
• hypercosmic
• intercosmic
• neocosmic
• noncosmic
• pancosmic
• postcosmic
• precosmic
• psychocosmic
• second cosmic velocity
• sociocosmic
• supercosmic
• third cosmic velocity
• transcosmic
• ultracosmic

Translations

of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe

• Albanian: kozmik (sq), hapësinor (sq)
• Arabic: كَوْنِيّ (kawniyy), فَضَائِيّ (faḍāʔiyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوني (kawni)

• Armenian: տիեզերական (hy) (tiezerakan)
• Azerbaijani: kosmik
• Belarusian: касмі́чны (be) (kasmíčny)
• Bulgarian: косми́чески (bg) (kosmíčeski)
• Burmese: အာကာသ (my) (akasa.)
• Catalan: còsmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宇宙的 (zh) (yǔzhòu de)

• Cornish: kosmek
• Czech: kosmický (cs), vesmírný (cs)
• Danish: kosmisk (da), rum- (da)
• Dutch: kosmisch (nl), ruim- (nl)
• Esperanto: kosma
• Estonian: kosmiline
• Finnish: kosminen (fi)
• French: cosmique (fr)
• Friulian: cosmic
• Galician: cósmico (gl)
• Georgian: კოსმოსური (ḳosmosuri)
• German: kosmisch (de), Raum- (de)
• Greek: κοσμικός (el) (kosmikós)
• Hebrew: קוֹסְמִי (kosmi)
• Hindi: अंतरिक्षीय (antrikṣīya)
• Hungarian: kozmikus (hu)
• Ido: kosmala (io)
• Indonesian: kosmik, kosmis (id)
• Italian: cosmico (it)
• Japanese: 宇宙の (ja) (う​ちゅうの, uchū no)
• Kazakh: ғарыштық (ğarıštıq)
• Khmer: អវកាស (km) (ʼaʼvĕəʼkaah)
• Korean: 우주의 (ko) (uju-ui)
• Kyrgyz: космостук (ky) (kosmostuk)
• Lao: ອະວະກາດ (lo) (ʼa wa kāt)
• Latvian: kosmisks
• Lithuanian: kosminis (lt)
• Macedonian: космички (kosmički)
• Malagasy: ankabakabaka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kosmisk, rom- (no)

  Nynorsk: kosmisk

• Old English: eall gesceapen, heofonlīc and eorðlīc
• Persian: کیهانی (fa) (keyhâni), فضایی (fa) (fazâyi)
• Polish: kosmiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: cósmico (pt)
• Romanian: cosmic (ro)
• Russian: косми́ческий (ru) (kosmíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀змичкӣ, све̏мӣрскӣ

  Latin: kòzmičkī (sh), svȅmīrskī (sh)

• Slovak: kozmický (sk), vesmírny
• Slovene: kozmičen, vesoljski
• Spanish: cósmico (es)
• Swedish: kosmisk (sv), rymd- (sv)
• Tajik: кайхонӣ (kayxoni), фазоӣ (fazoyi), космикӣ (kosmiki)
• Tatar: космик (qösmik)
• Thai: อวกาศ (th) (à-wá-gàat)
• Turkish: kozmik (tr), uzay (tr)
• Turkmen: kosmik
• Ukrainian: космі́чний (kosmíčnyj)
• Urdu: خَلائی (xalāī)
• Uzbek: kosmik (uz)
• Vietnamese: vũ trụ (vi)

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Friulian

Adjective

cosmic

1. cosmic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cosmique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkos.mik/

Adjective

cósmic m or n (feminine singular cosmică, masculine plural cosmici, feminine/neuter plural cosmice)

1. cosmic

Declension

Declension of cosmic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	cosmic		cosmică	cosmici	cosmice
	definite	cosmicul		cosmica	cosmicii	cosmicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	cosmic		cosmice	cosmici	cosmice
	definite	cosmicului		cosmicei	cosmicilor	cosmicelor

Further reading

• “cosmic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026