Pluto

English

Etymology

From Latin Plūtō, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”). Venetia Burney is often credited as having suggested the name for the celestial body.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpluːtəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplutoʊ/,

• audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːtəʊ

Proper noun

Pluto

2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.
4. (astronomy) The largest dwarf planet and formerly the ninth planet, represented by the symbol ♇ or ⯓, both now used mostly in astrology.

   Synonyms: (symbol) ♇, (obsolete) Planet X, (134340) Pluto, 134340 Pluto

   Hypernym: dwarf planet

Synonyms

• (astronomy, astrology): ♇, ⯓

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (most likely dwarf planets of the Solar System) Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, Sedna
• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra
• Cerberus
• Hades
• underworld
• plutonium

References

Further reading

• Pluto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Planets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pluto (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pluot, poult

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Pluto (mythology)

Wikipedia ^cs

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Pluto (dwarf planet)

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -uto
• Hyphenation: Plu‧to

Proper noun

Pluto m anim (related adjective Plutonův or Plutův)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto

Declension

Proper noun

Pluto m inan or n (related adjective plutonický or plutonský)

1. (astronomy) Pluto (dwarf planet)

Usage notes

• The name of the dwarf planet Pluto is originally masculine inanimate, but can be used also in neuter gender. In this particular case the choice of the gender does not influence the declension of the name itself, but it influences the declension of accompanying determiners and adjectives or conjugation of verbs in the sentence – see for example the sentence in masculine gender "Pluto byl objeven" or in neuter gender "Pluto bylo objeveno" (Pluto was discovered).

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• Pluto in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Pluto in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• plotu
• tlupo

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch Pluto, ultimately from Latin Plūtō, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈply.toː/

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• Hyphenation: Plu‧to

Proper noun

Pluto m

1. (Greco-Roman mythology) Pluto (god of the underworld)
2. (astronomy) Pluto (dwarf planet, former planet)

Derived terms

• in het hol van Pluto

Related terms

• plutocraat
• plutonisch
• plutonium

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluto/,
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification^(key): Plu‧to

Proper noun

Pluto

1. (Roman mythology) Pluto
2. (astronomy) Pluto (dwarf planet)

Declension

See also

Anagrams

• loput, lupot, polut

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Plūtō, Plūtōn, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluːtoː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Plu‧to

Proper noun

Pluto m (proper noun, strong, genitive Plutos or Pluto)

2. (astronomy) Pluto

   Hypernyms: Planet (traditionally), Zwergplanet (by the IAU founded in 1919 since 2006)

4. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto

Declension

References

• “Pluto” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Pluto (Zwergplanet)” in Duden online
• “Pluto (Gott)” in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

See at Plútó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: Plu‧to
• Rhymes: -toː

Proper noun

Pluto

1. Alternative form of Plútó (dwarf planet) (spelling preferred by astronomers, see Usage notes at Plútó)
2. (Roman mythology) Pluto (Roman god)

   Synonym: Hadész

Declension

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Pluto (mythology)

Wikipedia ^la

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Pluto (dwarf planet)

Wikipedia ^la

Alternative forms

• Plūtōn (for the god)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.to/,
• Hyphenation: Plu‧to

Proper noun

Plūtō m sg (genitive Plūtōnis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto (god of the underworld)
2. (New Latin, astronomy) Pluto (dwarf planet)
   • 2006 September 1, “Der Monatsrückblick auf Latein: Nuntii Latini mensium Iulii et Augusti 2006”, in Radio Bremen‎, archived from the original on 2007-09-30:

     Plutoni status planetae abiudicatus est a congressu astronomico mundano, qui Pragam convenerat. Astronomi enim noluerunt alia corpora caelestia, quorum aliquot maiora sunt Plutone quaeque extra orbitam eius solem circumeunt, in planetarum numerum asciscere.

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Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Plute, Poluto

Etymology

From Latin Pluto, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).

Proper noun

Pluto

1. (mythology) The Roman god governing the underworld; Pluto.

Usage notes

Referred exclusively to the deity, not the dwarf planet; Pluto (the dwarf planet) had not yet been discovered.

Descendants

• English: Pluto

References

• “Pluto, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Pluto

1. Pluto (dwarf planet)

See also

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Pluto c (genitive Plutos)

1. (Roman mythology) Pluto (Roman god)
2. Pluto (dwarf planet)

See also

• plutonium n
• plutokratie f

Tatar

Proper noun

Pluto

1. Pluto (dwarf planet)

References

• 8 klassik planetağa qarıy, menä alar: Merkuri, Venera, Cir, Mars, Yupiter, Saturn, Uran häm Neptun. Pluto xäzer başqa kategoriädä, ul kärlä planeta...