georgium sidus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus […] to a star, which (with respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign."
- "The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone."
- "The satellites of the Georgium Sidus, too, appear to move nearly at right angles to the plane of his orbit […]"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Geōrgium Sīdus. Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III.