Sirius

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪɹi.əs/    美 /ˈsɪɹi.əs/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
  2. The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A. specifically

词汇关系

近义词
α Canis Majoris A

词源

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
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