Sirius
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Sirius
- /ˈsɪɹi.əs/ US, UK
Sounds like cereous (mirror–nearer merger), serious (mirror–nearer merger) · Rhymes with -ɪɹiəs
Where it comes from
From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
proper noun
- 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.
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The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Similar: Alpha Canis Majoris, Blazing Star, Canicula, Shira, Sopdet, Sothis, the Dog Star, α Canis Majoris, α CMa
Similar: α Canis Majoris A
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dog star, sothis, canicula, delta, series, now, cyrus, sirus, canis major, furud, aludra, procyon, wezen, canis minor, gomeisa, mira
proper noun
Similar: α Canis Majoris A
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name Translations
| Español | Sirio |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 천랑성 Cheollangseong, 시리우스 siriuseu |
| 日本語 | 天狼星 Tenrōsei, シリウス Shiriusu |
| 中文 | 天狼星 Tiānlángxīng |
| हिन्दी | व्याध तारा vyādh tārā |
| Kiswahili | Shira |
| Português | Sírio |
| Français | Sirius |
| Deutsch | Sirius, Hundsstern |
| Italiano | Sirio |
| Ελληνικά | Σείριος Seírios |
| Română | Sirius |
| Русский | Си́риус Sírius |
| Tiếng Việt | Thiên Lang, Sirius |
| العربية | اَلشِّعْرَى aš-šiʕrā, الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة aš-šiʕrā l-yamāniyya |
| עברית | אַבְרֵק avréq |
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title = {Sirius},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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