planetarium

See also: Planetarium, planétarium, and planetárium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin planētārium. Equivalent to planet +‎ -arium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plænɪˈtɛəɹɪəm/, /plænɪˈtɛːɹi.əm/
• (US)
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /plænɪˈtɛɚiəm/, /plænəˈtɛɚiəm/
    • (Boston) IPA^(key): /pleənɪˈteə.ɹiəm/

      • Audio:

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  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /plænɪˈtɛɹiəm/, /plænəˈtɛɹiəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

planetarium (plural planetariums or planetaria)

1. A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.

   Synonym: (rare, dated) Spacearium

2. An orrery.

Translations

museum which displays images of space

• Albanian: planetar (sq) m
• Armenian: պլանետարիում (hy) (planetarium)
• Asturian: planetariu m
• Basque: planetario
• Belarusian: планета́рый m (planjetáryj), плянэта́рый m (pljanetáryj)
• Bulgarian: планета́риум m (planetárium)
• Burmese: နက္ခတ်တာရာပြခန်း (my) (nakhkattara-pra.hkan:)
• Catalan: planetari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天象儀 / 天象仪 (tin¹ zoeng⁶ ji⁴)

  Mandarin: 天象儀 / 天象仪 (zh) (tiānxiàngyí), 天文館 / 天文馆 (zh) (tiānwénguǎn)

• Czech: planetárium (cs)
• Danish: planetarium n
• Dutch: planetarium (nl) n
• Esperanto: planetario
• Estonian: planetaarium
• Finnish: planetaario (fi)
• French: planétarium (fr) m
• Friulian: planetari m
• Galician: planetario m
• Georgian: პლანეტარიუმი (ṗlaneṭariumi)
• German: Planetarium (de) n
• Greek: πλανητάριο (el) n (planitário)
• Hindi: ताराघर m (tārāghar), नक्षत्रशाला f (nakṣatraśālā)
• Hungarian: planetárium (hu)
• Icelandic: stjörnuver n
• Ido: planetaro (io)
• Indonesian: planetarium (id)
• Irish: pláinéadlann f
• Italian: planetario (it) m
• Japanese: プラネタリウム (ja) (puranetariumu), 天象儀 (ja) (てんしょうぎ, tenshōgi)
• Korean: 천문관(天文館) (ko) (cheonmun'gwan), 플라네타륨 (peullanetaryum)
• Latvian: planetārijs m
• Lithuanian: planetariumas m
• Macedonian: планетариум m (planetarium)
• Malay: planetarium, balai cerap (ms)
• Māori: whare rangihori
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: planetarium n

  Nynorsk: planetarium n

• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: planetarium (pl) n
• Portuguese: planetário (pt) m
• Romanian: planetariu (ro) n
• Russian: планета́рий (ru) m (planetárij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: планѐта̄риј m, планетаријум m

  Latin: planètārij (sh) m, planetarijum m

• Slovak: planetárium m
• Spanish: planetario (es) m
• Swedish: planetarium (sv) n
• Thai: ท้องฟ้าจำลอง (tɔ́ɔng-fáa-jam-lɔɔng)
• Turkish: planetaryum (tr)
• Ukrainian: планета́рій m (planetárij)
• Uzbek: planetariy (uz)
• Vietnamese: cung thiên văn

Anagrams

• retapamulin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin planētārium. Equivalent to planeet +‎ -arium.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˌplaː.neːˈtaː.ri.ʏm/, [ˌpla.neˈtaː.ri.ʏm]
• Hyphenation: pla‧ne‧ta‧ri‧um

Noun

planetarium n (plural planetaria or planetariums, diminutive planetariumpje n)

1. (astronomy) planetarium

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin planētārium.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /planetaˈrium/ [pla.ne.t̪aˈri.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: pla‧ne‧ta‧ri‧um

Noun

planétarium (plural planetarium-planetarium)

1. (astronomy) planetarium: A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling

Synonyms

• balai cerap (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• planet
• planetari
• planeter

Further reading

• “planetarium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)

Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs)bor.

Latin planēta

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -ārius

Latin -ārium

Latin planētārium

From planēta + -ārium.

Noun

planētārium n (genitive planētāriī or planētārī); second declension

1. (New Latin) planetarium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	planētārium	planētāria
genitive	planētāriī	planētāriōrum
dative	planētāriō	planētāriīs
accusative	planētārium	planētāria
ablative	planētāriō	planētāriīs
vocative	planētārium	planētāria

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planetarium n (definite singular planetariet, indefinite plural planetarier, definite plural planetaria or planetariene)

1. a planetarium

References

• “planetarium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

planetarium n (definite singular planetariet, indefinite plural planetarium, definite plural planetaria)

1. a planetarium

References

• “planetarium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English planetarium, from New Latin planētārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.nɛˈta.rjum/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: pla‧ne‧ta‧rium

Noun

planetarium n

1. (astronomy) planetarium (museum which displays images of space)

Declension

Declension of planetarium

	singular	plural
nominative	planetarium	planetaria
genitive	planetarium	planetariów
dative	planetarium	planetariom
accusative	planetarium	planetaria
instrumental	planetarium	planetariami
locative	planetarium	planetariach
vocative	planetarium	planetaria

Further reading

• “planetarium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “planetarium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)