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dimidium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dimid-i-um
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīmidium (“half”), referring to the planet's mass of approximately half the mass of Jupiter.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does dimidium mean?
51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
Where does dimidium come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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