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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”), may be decomposed as cosmo- + -naut.
Pronunciation
Noun
cosmonaut (plural cosmonauts)
- An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN:Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.
2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN:Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Derived terms
Translations
an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one
— see also astronaut
- Arabic: رَجُل فَضَاء m (rajul faḍāʔ), رَائِد فَضَاء m (rāʔid faḍāʔ), مَلَّاح فَضَائِيّ m (mallāḥ faḍāʔiyy)
- Armenian: տիեզերագնաց (hy) (tiezeragnacʻ)
- Azerbaijani: kosmonavt
- Belarusian: касмана́ўт m (kasmanáŭt)
- Bulgarian: космона́вт (bg) m (kosmonávt)
- Catalan: cosmonauta (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 太空人 (zh) (tàikōngrén), 宇航員 / 宇航员 (zh) (yǔhángyuán), 航天員 / 航天员 (zh) (hángtiānyuán), 宇宙飛行員 / 宇宙飞行员 (yǔzhòu fēixíngyuán)
- Cornish: stervarner m, stervarnores f
- Czech: kosmonaut (cs) m
- Dutch: kosmonaut (nl) m, kosmonaute f
- Esperanto: kosmonaŭto
- Estonian: kosmonaut
- Finnish: kosmonautti (fi)
- French: cosmonaute (fr) m
- Galician: cosmonauta (gl) m or f
- Georgian: კოსმონავტი (ḳosmonavṭi)
- German: Kosmonaut (de) m
- Greek: κοσμοναύτης (el) m (kosmonáftis)
- Hebrew: קוסמונאוט m (kosmonaut), קוסמונאוטית f (kosmonaut'it)
- Hungarian: kozmonauta (hu)
- Ido: kosmonauto (io)
- Italian: cosmonauta (it)
- Japanese: 宇宙飛行士 (ja) (うちゅうひこうし, uchū hikōshi), コスモノート (kosumonōto)
- Korean: 우주비행사(宇宙飛行士) (ko) (ujubihaengsa)
- Kyrgyz: учурчу (ucurcu)
- Lithuanian: kosmonautas m, kosmonautė f
- Malay: kosmonaut
- Mongolian: сансрын нисэгч (sansryn nisegč)
- Navajo: wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí
- Persian: فضانورد (fa) (fazânavard)
- Polish: astronauta (pl) m, astronautka (pl) f, kosmonauta (pl) m, kosmonautka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cosmonauta (pt) m or f
- Romanian: cosmonaut (ro) m, cosmonaută (ro) f
- Russian: космона́вт (ru) m (kosmonávt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: космонаут m, астронаут m
- Roman: kosmonaut (sh) m, astronaut (sh) m
- Spanish: cosmonauta (es) m or f
- Swedish: kosmonaut (sv) c
- Tagalog: malimayaw
- Thai: นักบินอวกาศ (nák-bin-à-wá-gàat)
- Turkish: kozmonot (tr), astronot (tr), uçurcu, fezagir
- Ukrainian: космона́вт m (kosmonávt)
- Vietnamese: nhà du hành vũ trụ, phi hành gia
- Yiddish: קאָסמאָנויט m (kosmonoyt)
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French cosmonaute. By surface analysis, cosmo- + -naut.
Pronunciation
Noun
cosmonaut m (plural cosmonauți, feminine equivalent cosmonaută)
- cosmonaut
- Synonym: astronaut
Declension
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