Ceres.
Ceres; a dwarf planet and the largest body in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter
Meaning & usage
Ceres; a dwarf planet and the largest body in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter
Ceres ligger i asteroidebeltet mellom Mars og Jupiter.
Ceres; the Roman goddess of grain cultivation and agriculture, early identified with the Greek goddess Demeter
Romerne dyrket Ceres som gudinne for korn og åkerbruk.
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, based on Latin Cerēs (“Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain and agriculture”), from Proto-Italic *Kerēs (“with grain; Ceres”). De Vaan reconstructs the latter from a Proto-Indo-European s-stem *ḱerh₁/₃-os (“nourishment, grain”), ultimately from *ḱerh₁/₃- (“to feed”). The name has traditionally also been compared with Latin creō (“to create, beget”) and crēscō (“to grow”), a comparison still given in some Norwegian reference works. De Vaan, however, regards crēscō as belonging to a different Proto-Indo-European root. The astronomical sense is named after the Roman goddess. The dwarf planet was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801; Piazzi initially proposed the name Ceres Ferdinandea, additionally honouring Ferdinand, but the second element was subsequently dropped. Cognate with Faliscan 𐌂𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔 (ceres, “Ceres”) and Oscan 𐌊𐌄𐌓𐌓𐌝 (kerrí, “Ceres, dative singular”). More distantly, compare Ancient Greek κορέννυμι (korénnumi, “to satiate, feed”), Lithuanian šerti (“to feed”), Old Norse hirsi, Old Saxon hirsi and Old High German hirso (“millet”).
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