cererian
/səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres
noun
An inhabitant of the asteroid Ceres
adj
Alternative spelling of Cererian.
Example Sentences
- "Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain"
- "An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields"
- "As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian"
- "We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian" Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis"
- "Most of the ship's mass would be Cererian water; Earth would supply the crew, the ship's skin, and the engines. Ceres' surface gravity is about ¹/₃₆ Earth's gravity, and the asteroid is just close enough to the sun for it to power the machinery. Cererian water may unlock the solar system."
- "Brucite itself has not been observed in meteorites in the amounts implied by Ceres' spectrum, which seems to minimize the likelihood that any Cererean material has been found by meteorite hunters."
Etymology
From Latin Cereris, genitive case of Cerēs.