planet
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (ellipsis of πλάνητες ἀστέρες (plánētes astéres, “wandering stars”).), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plánēs, “who wanders around, wanderer”), also "wandering star, planet", in medicine "unstable temperature."
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈplænɪt/
- (General Australian, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈplænət/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ænɪt
Noun
[edit]planet (plural planets)
- (now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14thc.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 260:
- Be they not dreames of humane vanity, […] to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [translating astre]?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 288:
- The moon […] began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 361:
- Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
- (astronomy, historical) Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)
- Synonyms: wandering star, wanderstar
- (astronomy, current) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [from 2006]
- Synonym: world
- Hypernym: planemo (in IAU usage)
- Hyponyms: binary planet, Blue Planet, carbide planet, carbon planet, classical planet, diamond planet, double planet, dual planet, dwarf planet (in non-IAU usage), exoplanet, extrasolar planet, free-floating planet (in non-IAU usage), gas giant, giant planet, hycean planet, ice giant, inferior planet, inner planet, interstellar planet (in non-IAU usage), major planet, mesoplanet, minor planet (in non-IAU usage), outer planet, Planet Earth, primary planet (in non-IAU usage), Red Planet, rogue planet (in non-IAU usage), satellite planet (in non-IAU usage), silicate planet, silicon planet, supergiant planet, superior planet, superplanet, terrestrial planet, water planet
- Coordinate terms: brown dwarf, sub-brown dwarf
- 1640, John Wilkins, A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets, title:
- A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets
- 2006 December 22, Alok Jha, The Guardian:
- Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets and three newly defined "dwarf planets"—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
- 2009 December 1st, Keiichi Wada, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Eiichiro Kokubo, “Planet Formation around Supermassive Black Holes in the Active Galactic Nuclei”, in The Astrophysical Journal, volume 886, number 2, article 107:
- construed with the or this: synonym of Earth.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
Usage notes
[edit]- The term planet originally meant any star which wandered across the sky, and generally included comets and the Sun and Moon. With the Copernican revolution, the Earth was recognized as a planet, and the Sun was seen to be fundamentally different. The Galilean satellites of Jupiter were at first called planets (satellite planets), but later reclassified along with the Moon. The first asteroids were also considered to be planets, but were reclassified when it was realized that there were a great many of them, crossing each other's orbits, in a zone where only a single planet had been expected. Likewise, Pluto was found where an outer planet had been expected, but doubts were raised when it turned out to cross Neptune's orbit and to be much smaller than the expectation required. When Eris, an outer body more massive than Pluto, was discovered, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word planet as above. However, a significant number of astronomers reject the IAU definition, especially in the field of planetary geology. Some are of the opinion that orbital parameters should be irrelevant, and that either any equilibrium (ellipsoidal) body in direct orbit around a star is a planet (there are likely at least a dozen such bodies in the Solar system) or that any equilibrium body at all is a planet, thus re-accepting the Moon, the Galilean satellites and other large moons as planets, as well as rogue planets.
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- antiplanet
- aquaplanet
- blanet
- deplanetize
- homeplanet
- interplanetary
- multiplanet
- nonplanet
- planetality
- planetar
- planetarium
- planetary
- planetbound
- planetcide
- planetdom
- planeted
- planeteer
- planetesimal
- planetfall
- planetful
- planet gear
- planethood
- planet-hunting
- planetical
- planetless
- planetlike
- planetographer
- planetography
- planetoid
- planetologist
- planetology
- planetophysics
- planet placement
- planetquake
- planetscape
- planetship
- planetside
- planet-stricken
- planetward
- planetwards
- planet wheel
- planetwide
- ploonet
- psychroplanet
- quasi-planet
- secondary planet
- sister planet
- sun and planet gear
- there is no Planet B
- thermoplanet
- Urinal of the Planets
Related terms
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See also
[edit]- (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- moon
- orbit
References
[edit]planet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Planets in astrology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- First Steps to Astronomy and Geography, 1828, (Hatchard & Son: Piccadilly, London).
Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet m (plural planete, definite planeti, definite plural planetet)
Declension
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | планет | |
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Abjad | پلانئت |
Etymology
[edit]Internationalism; ultimately from Latin planēta and Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer, planet”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetlər)
Declension
[edit]Declension of planet | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | planet |
planetlər | ||||||
definite accusative | planeti |
planetləri | ||||||
dative | planetə |
planetlərə | ||||||
locative | planetdə |
planetlərdə | ||||||
ablative | planetdən |
planetlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | planetin |
planetlərin |
Derived terms
[edit]- yadplanetli (“alien”)
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]planet c (singular definite planeten, plural indefinite planeter)
Inflection
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | planet | planeten | planeter | planeterne |
genitive | planets | planetens | planeters | planeternes |
Derived terms
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]planet
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet
- Alternative form of planete (“planet”)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse planéta, from Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).
Noun
[edit]planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planeter, definite plural planetene)
- a planet
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “planet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse planéta, from Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).
Noun
[edit]planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planetar, definite plural planetane)
- a planet
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet n
References
[edit]- “planet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet f
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet m (plural planeți)
- Alternative form of planetă
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) planet | planetul | (niște) planeți | planeții |
genitive/dative | (unui) planet | planetului | (unor) planeți | planeților |
vocative | planetule | planeților |
Romansch
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet m (plural planets)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]plànēt m (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄т)
Declension
[edit]Slovene
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planẹ̑t m inan
Inflection
[edit]Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | planét | ||
gen. sing. | planéta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
planét | planéta | planéti |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
planéta | planétov | planétov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
planétu | planétoma | planétom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
planét | planéta | planéte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
planétu | planétih | planétih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
planétom | planétoma | planéti |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- (planets of the Solar System) planéti osónčja; Merkúr, Vénera, Zémlja, Márs, Júpiter, Satúrn, Urán, Neptún
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet c
Declension
[edit]Declension of planet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | planet | planeten | planeter | planeterna |
Genitive | planets | planetens | planeters | planeternas |
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetler)
Declension
[edit]- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ænɪt
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- en:Astrology
- English terms with quotations
- en:Astronomy
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- Azerbaijani terms derived from Latin
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- az:Astronomy
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Astronomy
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Astronomy
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
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- nn:Astronomy
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- Rhymes:Polish/anɛt
- Rhymes:Polish/anɛt/2 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
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- Romansch lemmas
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- rm:Astronomy
- rm:Astrology
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- Croatian Serbo-Croatian
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- Slovene inanimate nouns
- sl:Astronomy
- Slovene masculine hard o-stem nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Astronomy
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- Turkish terms borrowed from French
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- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- tr:Astronomy
- Turkish terms with rare senses