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English
Pluto
Pluto's planetary symbol, PL monogram ⟨♇ ⟩
An alternative planetary symbol ⟨⯓ ⟩
A planetary symbol ⟨⯔ ⟩ common around the Mediterranean
A planetary symbol ⟨⯖ ⟩ common in northern Europe
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.[ 1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto
( Greek mythology , Roman mythology ) Greco-Roman god of the underworld .
( 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
Kuiper belt object - a dwarf planet
Abkhaz: Плутон ( Pʼlutʼon )
Amharic: ፕሉቶ ( pəluto )
Arabic: بْلُوتُو (ar) m ( blūtū )
Armenian: Պլուտոն (hy) ( Pluton )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܠܘܼܛܘܿܢ m ( pluṭon )
Bengali: প্লুটো (bn) ( pluṭō )
Burmese: ပလူတို (my) ( pa.lutui )
Catalan: Plutó (ca) m
Chechen: Плутон ( Pluton )
Cherokee: ᏡᏙ ( tludo )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 冥王星 ( ming4 wong4 sing1 , ming5 wong4 sing1 )
Hokkien: 冥王星 ( Bêng-ông-chheⁿ, Bêng-ông-chhiⁿ )
Mandarin: 冥王星 (zh) ( Míngwángxīng )
Cornish: Plouton m
Czech: Pluto (cs)
Danish: Pluto
Dutch: Pluto (nl)
Dzongkha: སྐར་མ་གཤིན་རྒྱལ ( skar ma gshin rgyal )
Esperanto: Plutono (eo)
Estonian: Pluuto
Fijian: Puluto
Finnish: Pluto (fi)
French: Pluton (fr) m
Galician: Plutón (gl) m
Georgian: პლუტონი ( ṗluṭoni )
German: Pluto (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: Πλούτων ( Ploútōn )
Modern: Πλούτωνας (el) ( Ploútonas )
Guaraní: Plutõ
Gujarati: પ્લૂટો ( plūṭo )
Haitian Creole: Pliton
Hawaiian: ʻIlioki
Hebrew: פלוטו ( pluto )
Hindi: यम (hi) ( yam ) , प्लूटो (hi) ( plūṭo )
Hungarian: Plútó (hu) , Pluto (hu)
Indonesian: Pluto
Irish: Plútón m
Italian: Plutone (it) m
Jamaican Creole: Pluuto
Japanese: 冥王星 (ja) ( めいおうせい, Meiōsei ) , ( katakana ) プルート (ja) ( Purūto ) , ( katakana ) プルートー (ja) ( Purūtō )
Javanese: Pluto
Kazakh: Плутон ( Pluton )
Khmer: យមៈ (km) ( yom mak ) , ភ្លុយតុង ( pluytong ) , នព្វគ្រោះ ( nup krʊək )
Korean: 명왕성(冥王星) (ko) ( Myeong'wangseong )
Kyrgyz: Плутон ( Pluton )
Lao: ພລູໂຕ ( pha lū tō )
Latin: Pluto (la) , Pluton (la)
Latvian: Plutons m
Lingala: Pluto
Lithuanian: Plutonas (lt) m
Macedonian: Плу́тон m ( Plúton )
Malagasy: Plotôna
Malay: Pluto
Maltese: Plutone m
Maori: Whiringa-ki-Tawhiti , Tama-i-waho
Marathi: प्लूटो ( plūṭo )
Nahuatl: Mictlanteuccitlalli
Navajo: Tłóotoo
Nepali: यमग्रह ( yamagraha )
Norman: Pliuton m ( Jersey )
Odia: ପ୍ଲୁଟୋ ( pluṭo )
Ossetian: Плутон ( Pluton )
Pashto: پلوټو m ( pluto )
Persian: پلوتون (fa) ( pluton )
Polish: Pluton (pl) m
Portuguese: Plutão (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Quechua: Plutun
Romanian: Pluto (ro) m , Pluton (ro) m ( dated )
Russian: Плуто́н (ru) m ( Plutón )
Santali: ᱡᱚᱢᱨᱟᱡᱟ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ ( jômraja ẽgel )
Scottish Gaelic: Pliùtò
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Плу̀то̄н m
Roman: Plùtōn (sh) m
Shona: Njondi
Sinhalese: ප්ලූටෝ ( plūṭō )
Slovak: Pluto n
Slovene: Plúton (sl) m
Somali: Bluto
Spanish: Plutón (es) m
Swahili: Pluto
Swedish: Pluto (sv)
Tagalog: Pluton
Tajik: Плутон ( Pluton )
Tamil: புளூட்டோ ( puḷūṭṭō )
Tatar: Плуто́н ( Plutón )
Telugu: ప్లూటో (te) ( plūṭō )
Thai: ดาวพลูโต (th) ( daao-pluu-dtoo ) , ดาวยม ( daao-yom )
Tibetan: གཤིན་རྒྱལ ( gshin rgyal ) ( also Yama , the Hindu god of death, similar to the Roman namesake of Pluto )
Tok Pisin: Piluto
Tongan: Puluto
Tswana: Piluto
Tumbuka: Nthuzi , Chanya la Nthuzi
Turkish: Plüton (tr)
Turkmen: Pluton
Urdu: پلوٹو m ( plūṭo )
Uzbek: Pluton
Venetan: Pluton m
Vietnamese: sao Diêm Vương (𣋀 閻王 ), Diêm Vương Tinh (vi) (閻王星 )
Volapük: Plutun
Welsh: Plwton m
Wolof: Pluton
Yiddish: פּלוטאָ m ( pluto )
Yoruba: Plùtò
Zulu: uPluto , uNochoko
See also
(most likely dwarf planet s 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
^ Nunberg, Geoff (2006 August 27) “Another Plutonian casualty?”, in Language Log
Further reading
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto m anim (relational adjective Plutonův or Plutův )
( Greek mythology , Roman mythology ) Pluto
Declension
Declension of Pluto (sg-only hard masculine animate irreg-stem )
Proper noun
Pluto m inan or n (relational adjective plutonický or plutonský )
( 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
Declension of Pluto (sg-only masculine inanimate in -o // hard neuter )
singular
nominative
Pluto
genitive
Pluta
dative
Plutu
accusative
Pluto
vocative
Pluto
locative
Plutu
instrumental
Plutem
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
“Pluto ”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
“Pluto ”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch Pluto , ultimately from Latin Plūtō , from Ancient Greek Πλούτων ( Ploútōn ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈply.toː/
Hyphenation: Plu‧to
Proper noun
Pluto m
( Greco-Roman mythology ) Pluto ( god of the underworld )
( astronomy ) Pluto ( dwarf planet, former planet )
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πλούτων ( Ploútōn ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto
( Roman mythology ) Pluto
( astronomy ) Pluto ( dwarf planet )
Declension
See also
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Plūtō , Plūtōn , from Ancient Greek Πλούτων ( Ploútōn , “ god of the underworld ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpluːtoː/
Hyphenation: Plu‧to
Proper noun
Pluto m (proper noun , strong , genitive Plutos or Pluto )
( astronomy ) Pluto
Hypernyms: Planet ( traditionally ) , Zwergplanet ( by the IAU founded in 1919 since 2006 )
( Greek mythology , Roman mythology ) Pluto
Declension
References
Hungarian
Etymology
See at Plútó .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto
Alternative form of Plútó ( dwarf planet ) ( spelling preferred by astronomers, see Usage notes at Plútó )
( Roman mythology ) Pluto ( Roman god )
Synonym: Hadész
Declension
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλούτων ( Ploútōn , “ god of the underworld ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plūtō m sg (genitive Plūtōnis ) ; third declension
( Greek mythology , Roman mythology ) Pluto ( god of the underworld )
( 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Middle English
Etymology
From Latin Pluto , from Ancient Greek Πλούτων ( Ploútōn ) .
Proper noun
Pluto
( 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 . Equivalent applies, of course, in the relevant language(s), for names like Eris , Haumea , Makemake , or Sedna .
Descendants
References
Swahili
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto
Pluto ( dwarf planet )
See also
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pluto c (genitive Plutos )
( Roman mythology ) Pluto (Roman god)
Pluto (dwarf planet)
See also
Tatar
Proper noun
Pluto
Pluto (dwarf planet)
References