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801 Etymology dictionary, p. Mars.3
… . The planet was so named by the Romans, no doubt for its blood-like color. The Greeks also called the planet Pyroeis "the fiery." Also in medieval alchemy, "iron" (late …
802 Etymology dictionary, p. Mardi Gras (n.).2
… the planet Mars;" see Tuesday ) + gras "fat," from Latin crassus, "thick," which is of unknown origin.
803 Etymology dictionary, p. martial (adj.).2
… the planet Mars" (1620s). Related: Martially. Martial law, "military rule over civilians," first recorded 1530s. Martial arts (1909) as a collective name for the fighting …
804 Etymology dictionary, p. Martian (adj.).2
… the planet Mars" (originally in reference to astrological influence), from Latin Martius "sacred to (the god) Mars; pertaining to (the planet) Mars," from Mars (genitive …
805 Etymology dictionary, p. mercurial (adj.).2
… the planet Mercury," from Latin Mercurialis, from Mercurius (see Mercury ). Meaning "pertaining to the god Mercury, having the form or qualities attributed to …
806 Etymology dictionary, p. mercury (n.).2
… the planet for its mobility. The others were Sun/gold, Moon/silver, Mars/iron, Saturn/lead, Jupiter/tin, Venus/copper.
807 Etymology dictionary, p. Mercury.4
The planet closest to the sun was so called in classical Latin (c. 1300 in English). A hypothetical inhabitant of the planet was a Mercurean (1855) or a Mercurian (1755). For the metallic element, see mercury .
808 Etymology dictionary, p. moon (n.).4
Extended 1665 to satellites of other planets. Typical of a place impossible to reach or a thing impossible to obtain, by 1590s. Meaning "a month, the period of the revolution of the moon about the earth" is from late 14c.
809 Etymology dictionary, p. Neptune.3
The planet so named was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (1812-1910) on the night of Sept. 23-24, 1846 and named by French astronomer Urbain …
810 Etymology dictionary, p. Neptune.4
… a planet. Until the identification of Pluto in 1930 (and again since that planet's demotion), it was the most distant known planet of the solar system.
811 Etymology dictionary, p. Neptunian (adj.).2
… the planet Neptune" it is recorded from 1870.
812 Etymology dictionary, p. neptunium (n.).2
transuranic element, 1941, from Neptune + element ending -ium. Named for its relative position in the periodic table, next after uranium, as the planet Neptune is one beyond Uranus. See also plutonium .
813 Etymology dictionary, p. orb (n.).3
… the planets and the stars through their heavenly motions in the Ptolemaic system. Used poetically of the earth, sun, or moon from 1590s; used rhetorically …
814 Etymology dictionary, p. orbit (n.).2
… a planet or comet" (recorded in English from 1690s; later also of artificial satellites) was in classical Latin and was revived in Gerard of Cremona's translation …
815 Etymology dictionary, p. orrery (n.).2
… the planets in their orbits, 1713, invented c. 1704 by English clockmaker George Graham (1673-1751) and constructed by instrument maker John Rowley. Graham …
816 Etymology dictionary, p. *pele- (2).3
… wings;" planet; plani-; planisphere; plano-; -plasia; plasma; plasmid; plasm; -plasm; -plast; plaster; plastic; plastid; -plasty; Polack; Poland; Pole; polka; protoplasm; veldt …
817 Etymology dictionary, p. perihelion (n.).2
"point at which a planet or comet is nearest the Sun," 1680s, coined in Modern Latin ( perihelium ) by Kepler (1596) from Latinizations of Greek peri "near" (see peri- ) + hēlios "sun" (from PIE root *sawel- "the sun"). Subsequently re-Greeked.
818 Etymology dictionary, p. planet (n.).1
planet (n.)
819 Etymology dictionary, p. planet (n.).2
… French planete (Modern French planète ) and directly from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planētēs, from (asteres) planētai "wandering (stars)," from planasthai …
820 Etymology dictionary, p. planet (n.).4
… star, planet," in medicine "unstable temperature."