sirius
/ˈsɪɹi.əs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
name
The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Etymology
From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Sīrius, Σείριος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɪɹi.əs/
- British English: /ˈsɪɹi.əs/
Derived Forms
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Synonyms
Alpha Canis Majoris
Blazing Star
Canicula
Shira
Sopdet
Sothis
the Dog Star
α Canis Majoris
α CMa
α Canis Majoris A