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English
Etymology
Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).
Noun
Selenite (plural Selenites)
- (science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Selenite’s Face”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, , published 1901, →OCLC, page 136:My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.
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Adjective
Selenite (not comparable)
- (science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).
a Selenite colony
1873, Jules Verne, “Round the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Chapter III. Their Place of Shelter.”, in Louis Mercier [i.e., Lewis Page Mercier], Eleanor E King, transl., From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. , New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 170:"Come, Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here."
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Noun
Selenite n
- nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Selenit