morning star

See also: morningstar and Morning Star

English

Morning stars through the centuries

Noun

morning star (plural morning stars)

1. The planet Venus as observed in the eastern sky around dawn.

   The evening star is the morning star. (Hesperus is Phosphorus.)

   • 1979, Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, “The Rainbow Connection”, The Muppet Movie, Henson Associates and ITC Entertainment

     Who said that every wish would be heard and answered / When wished on the morning star? / Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it / And look what it's done so far.

2. (less commonly) The planet Mercury as observed in the eastern sky around dawn.
3. (military) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 55

     Contrivances like these, except that the balls were armed with spikes, were long carried by the pioneers of the trained bands, or city militia, they are generally called morning stars.

Synonyms

• (planet Venus): Phosphorus
• (planet Mercury): Apollo
• (spiked weapon on staff): holy water sprinkler, morgenstern

Antonyms

• (planet Venus): evening star, Hesperus
• (planet Mercury): evening star, Hermes

Related terms

• (spiked weapon on staff): truncheon, mace, holy water sprinkler

Translations

planet Venus as seen around dawn

• Arabic: نَجْمَة الصَبَاح‎ f (najmat al-ṣabāh)
• Armenian: լուսաստղ (hy) (lusastł)
• Aromanian: lutseafir m
• Central Melanau: biteang wab
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 啓明 (këi²ming⁴)

  Mandarin: 启明 (qǐmíng)

• Czech: jitřenka (cs) f
• Dutch: morgenster (nl) f
• Eastern Bontoc: fiataktakan, fiatakog
• Finnish: aamutähti (fi)
• French: étoile du matin (fr) f
• German: Morgenstern (de) m
• Ilocano: baggak ti agsapa
• Irish: réalta na maidine f
• Italian: stella del mattino (it) m, lucifero m

• Japanese: 明けの明星 (ja) (ake no myōjō)
• Korean: 샛별 (ko) (saesbyeol)
• Latin: lucifer
• Lubuagan Kalinga: ambigaton
• Malay: bintang barat, bintang johar, bintang kejora, bintang pagi, bintang timur, bintang Zuhrah
• Navajo: sǫʼtsoh, sǫʼtsoh łigaii, sǫʼ doo ńdízídí
• Portuguese: estrela d’alva f
• Romanian: luceafăr (ro), luceafărul de dimineață
• Russian: у́тренняя звезда́ f (útrennjaja zvezdá)
• Scottish Gaelic: reul na maidne f
• Southern Kalinga: amfikaton
• Spanish: lucero del alba m, estrella del alba f, lucífero (es) m
• Swedish: morgonstjärna (sv) c
• Tagalog: tala sa umaga
• Yiddish: מאָרגנשטערן‎ m (morgnshtern)

spiked weapon on staff

• Czech: kropáč (cs) m, morgenštern
• Danish: morgenstjerne
• Dutch: morgenster (nl) f
• Finnish: aamutähti (fi), piikkinuija
• German: Morgenstern (de) m
• Italian: mazza ferrata f, stella del mattino (it) f
• Japanese: モーニングスター (mōningu sutā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morgenstjerne m, f

  Nynorsk: morgonstjerne f

• Polish: gwiazda poranna, morgenstern, morgensztern
• Portuguese: maça de espinhos f
• Russian: моргенште́рн m (morgenštérn)
• Serbo-Croatian: јутарње звезде
• Slovene: buzdovan
• Spanish: lucero del alba m
• Swedish: morgonstjärna (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} stella del mattino (it) m, ^{(please verify)} mazza ferrata f
• Japanese: 明けの明星 (ake no myôjô), wikipedia has this: ^{(please verify)} モーニングスター

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} luceafărul de dimineață

Further reading

• Phosphorus (morning star) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• morning star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Morning star (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia