cosmos

See also: Cosmos

English

Etymology 1

The cosmos

From Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏz'mŏs, IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.mɒs/
• enPR: kŏz'mōs, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.moʊs/

Noun

cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmoses or cosmoi)

1. The universe.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:

     The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

   • 2013 August 24, “A problem of cosmic proportions”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:

     In Dr Wetterich’s picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.

2. An ordered, harmonious whole.
   • 1890, S.B. Palmer, “Matter and force in the oral cavity”, in The Dental Cosmos, volume XXXII, page 538:

     This simple cell is a cosmos in this respect : it represents the laws of the universe in changes of matter, and clearly exemplifies their workings in the oral cavity.

Related terms

• cosmetic
• cosmonaut

Translations

the universe

• Afrikaans: kosmos (af)
• Albanian: kozmos (sq) m, gjithësi (sq) f
• Arabic: كَوْن m (kawn), اَلْكَوْن m (al-kawn), فَضَاء (ar) m (faḍāʔ)
• Armenian: տիեզերք (hy) (tiezerkʻ), կոսմոս (hy) (kosmos)
• Azerbaijani: kosmos
• Belarusian: ко́смас m (kósmas), сусве́т m (susvjét)
• Bulgarian: вселе́на (bg) f (vseléna), ко́смос (bg) m (kósmos)
• Catalan: cosmos (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宇宙 (zh) (yǔzhòu), 太空 (zh) (tàikōng)

• Chukchi: иʼиʼн (iʼiʼn), ӈаргынэн (ṇargynėn), ымӈаргынэн (ymṇargynėn)
• Czech: vesmír (cs) m, kosmos (cs) m
• Danish: kosmos (da)
• Dutch: heelal (nl) n, kosmos (nl) m
• Esperanto: kosmo
• Estonian: kosmos (et)
• Finnish: maailmankaikkeus (fi), kosmos (fi)
• French: cosmos (fr) m
• Galician: cosmos (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსმოსი (ḳosmosi)
• German: Kosmos (de) m, All (de) n
• Greek: κόσμος (el) m (kósmos)
• Hungarian: kozmosz (hu), világegyetem (hu)
• Icelandic: alheimur (is) m
• Ido: kosmo (io)
• Indonesian: kosmos (id)
• Italian: cosmo (it) m
• Japanese: 宇宙 (ja) (うちゅう, uchū), コスモス (ja) (kosumosu)
• Kazakh: ғарыш (kk) (ğaryş), ғалам (ğalam)
• Korean: 우주 (ko) (uju) (宇宙 (ko)), 코스모스 (ko) (koseumoseu)
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• Kyrgyz: бүт дүйнө (büt düynö), аалам (ky) (aalam)
• Latvian: kosmoss m
• Lithuanian: kosmosas m
• Macedonian: космос m (kosmos), вселена f (vselena)
• Malay: kosmos
• Maori: tātai tuarangi
• Norwegian: kosmos n
• Persian: کیهان (fa) (keyhân)
• Polish: kosmos (pl) m, wszechświat (pl) m
• Portuguese: cosmo (pt) m
• Romanian: cosmos (ro) m
• Russian: ко́смос (ru) m (kósmos), вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: космос m, свемир m

  Roman: kosmos (sh) m, svemir (sh) m

• Slovak: vesmír (sk) m, kosmos m
• Slovene: kozmos m, vesolje (sl) n
• Spanish: cosmos (es) m
• Swedish: kosmos (sv)
• Tagalog: mayaw, kosmos
• Tajik: кайҳон (tg) (kayhon), коинот (tg) (koyinot)
• Thai: จักรวาล (th) (jàk waan)
• Turkish: kozmos (tr), evren (tr)
• Turkmen: kosmos
• Ukrainian: ко́смос m (kósmos), все́світ (uk) m (vsésvit)
• Uyghur: پەزا (peza), كائىنات (ka'inat)
• Uzbek: fazo (uz), kosmos (uz), koinot (uz)
• Vietnamese: vũ trụ (vi) (宇宙 (vi))
• Volapük: kosmod
• Yiddish: קאָסמאָס m (kosmos)

an ordered, harmonious whole

• German: Kosmos (de) m
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• Russian: система (ru) m (sistema)

herb

• Armenian: զարդենի (hy) (zardeni)
• Japanese: コスモス (ja) (kosumosu)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
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• Portuguese: cosmos (pt) m
• Russian: косме́я (kosméja), ко́смос (ru) (kósmos)
• Spanish: cosmos (es) m

Etymology 2

garden cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus

From the genus name Cosmos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.mɒs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.moʊs/, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.məs/

Wikispecies

Noun

cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmos)

1. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
   • 1838, George B. Knowles and Frederic Westcott, The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany‎^[1], volume 2, page 3:

     COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS. (Various-leaved Cosmos.)

   • 1842, Jane Loudon, Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals‎^[2], page 185:

     It was first described and figured in 1797, by Cavanilles, who called it Cosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos, beautiful ; but this name was afterwards altered by Willdenow to Cosmea, as being more consistent with the rules of botanical nomenclature.

Etymology 3

a cosmo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔz.moʊz/

Noun

cosmos

1. plural of cosmo

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).

Noun

cosmos m (invariable)

1. cosmos, universe

Related terms

• còsmic

Further reading

• “cosmos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cosmos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cosmos” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cosmos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔs.mos/

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Noun

cosmos m (uncountable)

1. cosmos, universe

Related terms

• cosmique

Further reading

• “cosmos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

cosmos m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of cosmo
2. cosmos (herb of the genus Cosmos)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosmos/ [ˈkoz.mos]

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

1. universe
2. space (area beyond the atmosphere of planets)
3. cosmos (herbs of the genus Cosmos)

Synonyms

• (universe): mundo, universo
• (space): espacio

Related terms

• cósmico
• cosmonauta

Further reading

• “cosmos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014