English Explanatory Dictionary

Georgium Sidus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The planet Uranus.

Word forms

Georgium Sidus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Geōrgium Sīdus. Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III.

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