What is the Latin word for star?
There's a good explanation of the differences between stella, astrum and sidus here if you understand German: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QmwTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=sidus,+stella,+astrum&source=bl&ots=Z4mOfLjr9s&sig=45HtPgXCL8BlTGdP8LbRLsDSg_k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HigAVKiTAZDkaqvAgeAI&ved=0CCAQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=sidus%2C%20stella%2C%20astrum&f=false Here is the gist: "Stella" literally means "strewer of light" and is used to denote each of the countless single stars in the sky. "Astrum" is used to denote all the great luminous heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and the main stars with their own names. "Sidus" literally means "shape, form, figure" and hence has come to mean a complex or group of stars, a constellation. Such are the strict differences between the three nouns, but they have been used virtually interchangeably to mean "a star" by certain Roman writers.
What is latin for "Reach for the stars"?
The best way to do this in Latin is "extende ad astra" or "extende ad stellas" (both of which mean "stretch-out to/toward the stars"). An alternate would be "extende in astra/stellas" ("stretch-out unto the stars"). The well-known motto "per aspera ad astra" means "through rough [things] to/toward the stars."
What is the Latin word for north?
Septentriones or pars caeli septentrionalis (north and general direction of north respectively). It comes from name of stars visible in the northern sky (seven triones). In medieval Latin and Neo-Latin you can also meet with term bruma (originally day of winter solstice, came to mean winter in general and then the general direction associated with winter. My two cents, if anyone one more about the astronomy and the stars I mentioned, share with us please.
"Star" in Latin: "Astrum" or "Stella"?
Stella means star, astrum means star or constellation.
What are the Latin words for Sun, Moon, Star, and Sky??
Its sol, luna, and cielo good luck
What is the most beautiful word in Latin?
This isn't a word, but a phrase, but it's still my favorite:"Lux Nova"It means "new light," and it specifically refers to the advent of stained glass in France in the 12th century. The Abbot Suger, who rebuilt the Church of Saint-Denis with Gothic architecture and stained glass windows, used the phrase to describe the heavenly aura that filled the church. His patronage of the new architectural style, which some considered barbaric, helped move European architecture beyond Roman imitations and eventually led to masterpieces like Notre Dame and Ste-Chapelle in Paris and the Koelner Dom in Cologne. But, more generally, I find the phrase beautiful because it symbolizes how, even during one of the less enlightened times in human history, people still were looking for new ways to illuminate their faith and perspective. At the time, the high arches and shining windows were revolutionary; by the Renaissance, they were musty relics, and people were looking for their next "Lux Nova." Whenever I stand in a medieval church and remember Abbot Suger's words, I am reminded of humans' common desire to leave the world a little clearer, a little lovelier than they found it.If you do really want to stick to a word, though, I would have to pick "nova." Not only does it pop up as a word of origin for all sorts of nice words (renewable! novel!) in English as well as other languages (nouveau! nuevo!), but it also remains as is in astronomy: A star "going nova" is exploding. There's something scary yet wonderful about calling the most epic destruction imaginable "going new."
What is the Greek word for star? What names are related to that word?
The classical Greek word for "star" was "aster" (usually referring to one star) or "astron" (usually used in the plural "astra" referring to "the stars" in general). Latin borrowed this Greek word as "astrum". In English, we also have the combining form "astro-". Several dozen English words and expressions derive from these roots:aster, a flower whose petals radiate out like star shineasteroid, probably coined by the astronomer Herschel to refer to an astronomical body "like a star"asterism, a group of stars (the Big Dipper is an asterism, not a constellation)asterisk, a little star *astronomy, the science of the starsastrology, a pseudo-science claiming to be able to predict future events or explain personalityastronaut, a "star sailor", coined for a science-fiction story in the 1920sAstroTurf, the trademark name for an artificial grass first used in the Houston Astrodome (so named because Houston at the time was the center of the U.S. space program -- "Houston, we have a problem...")astrolabe, an old-style sextant used to "take the stars" for navigational calculationsastrobleme, literally a "star wound", the eroded crater left behind by a meteorite or comet impactastrocyte, a star-shaped glial cell of the central nervous systemAsteroidea, a class of echinoderms that comprises the starfishesper aspera ad astra, "through hardships to the stars", the motto of many educational and other institutionslots of other words starting with "astro-"As far as specific names, Aster itself can be used as a girl's name -- (it's the middle name of Gilbert Gottfried's daughter, and Aster Phoenix is a character in the Japanese anime Yu-Gi-Oh). Other names (not all from Greek) with a "starry" flavor include Star, Starr, Starling, Astra, Estrella, Estela, and Soleil.
Why did isaiah call the fallen star lucifer, when the word lucifer is latin?
Because Lucifer means light bearer. Can you tell me, what words that we english speaking people speak that actually has its origin from american. IGNORANCE........bliss.
If austral means south in Latin, what is the Latin word for north?
The cardinal direction is septentrio. The Romans observed the rotation of the seven stars we call the Big Dipper going around the pole star and referred to them as the ‘plough of seven’ — septem trio. So septentrio is the direction proper.If you’re a fancy Roman the general idea of “the north” is Boreas from name the Greek god of the north wind. If you’re less pretentious its Aquilo, the Italic god who handled the same winds. Following Greek usage the ‘far north’ is Hyperborea, “the country beyond the north wind.”In modern English usage the adjectives are boreal or septentrional . Usually boreal implies a northern climate and septentrional implies a northerly direction.