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Jupiter

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English

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Etymology

From Latin Iūpiter (father Jove), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally sky father) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, father Zeus)), from *djous (day, sky) + *patēr (father), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally the bright one), from *dyew- (to be bright, day sky), and *ph₂tḗr (father). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒupɪtɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒupɪɾɚ]
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. (astronomy) The fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.
    • 2022 November 18, Ian Sample, “Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small”, in The Guardian:
      The arrival of the new prefixes means the Earth can now be said to weigh six ronnagrams, and Jupiter about two quettagrams.
  2. (Roman mythology) The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.
  3. (informal) The largest or most prominent member of a group.
    Brazil could be considered the Jupiter of South America.
    Jupiter became the nickname of John Pierpont Morgan in late 19th century finance.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, named after a mine.
    2. A town in Palm Beach County, Florida, named in error after the Roman god.
      • 2017 March 1, Hannah Seligson, “Where to get hip in Palm Beach”, in CNN:
        But there’s also a burgeoning food scene in downtown Palm Beach that’s drawing Floridians from Jupiter to Boca.
    3. A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, named after the planet.
    4. An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
  5. A summer resort on the Black Sea in Romania.

Usage notes

Synonyms

  • (astronomy, astrology):

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Jupiter (uncountable)

  1. (heraldry, rare) Azure (blue), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
    • 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:
      5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.
    • 1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry [...] Second Edition:
      George [...] 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland.
    • 1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium [...] vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:
      8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony. Note, these Ensigns (which are the paternal Coat of his Majesty King George) I have added as an Example, to shew the Form of what foreign Heralds term Tierce in Mantle, ente en Pointe, &c. []
    • 1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:
      ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.
  2. (especially astronomy) Alternative spelling of jupiter.
  3. (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Tin.

See also

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Jupiter.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Ju‧piter

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. (astronomy) Jupiter
  2. (Roman mythology) Jupiter

See also

Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jupiter m anim

  1. (Roman mythology) Jupiter (Roman god)

Declension

  • The archaic way of declining this noun used Jov- in place of Jupiter- in the oblique cases, following the Latin declension.

Proper noun

Jupiter m inan

  1. Jupiter (planet)

Declension

See also

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Further reading

Danish

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

See also

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

From Middle Dutch jupiter, from Latin Iūpiter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjy.piˌtɛr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Ju‧pi‧ter

Proper noun

Jupiter m

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: Jupiter
  • Papiamentu: Yüpitèr

Estonian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

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Faroese

Proper noun

Jupiter m

  1. Jupiter (planet)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin Iūpiter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjupiter/, [ˈjupit̪e̞r]
  • Rhymes: -upiter
  • Syllabification(key): Ju‧pi‧ter
  • Hyphenation(key): Ju‧pi‧ter

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. (astronomy) Jupiter (planet)
  2. (Roman mythology) Jupiter (Roman god)
    Synonym: Juppiter

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒy.pi.tɛʁ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Paris)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Toulouse)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

Proper noun

Jupiter m

  1. Jupiter (Roman god)

Proper noun

Jupiter m or f

  1. Jupiter (planet)

Derived terms

Descendants

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Iūpiter (Jupiter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuːpitɐ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Ju‧pi‧ter

Proper noun

Jupiter m (proper noun, strong, genitive Jupiters or Jupiter)

  1. (astronomy) Jupiter
  2. (Roman mythology) Jupiter

Declension

See also

References

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjupitɛr]
  • Hyphenation: Ju‧pi‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...
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Indonesian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. (astronomy) Jupiter (planet)
    Synonym: Yupiter

See also

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Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jūpiter m sg (genitive Jovis); third declension

  1. alternative spelling of Iuppiter

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

More information singular, nominative ...

Middle English

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. alternative form of Jubiter

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Jupiter.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈjupiːter/

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. Jupiter (planet)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian

Proper noun

Jupiter

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

See also

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djowe-, ablative case of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jowisz and Zeus.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jupiter m pers

  1. (Roman mythology) Jupiter (the chief god, the Roman god of the sky and lightning)
    Synonym: Jowisz

Declension

Further reading

  • Jupiter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Jupiter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Proper noun

Jupiter m

  1. Jupiter (planet)

See also

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jǔpiter/
  • Hyphenation: Ju‧pi‧ter

Proper noun

Jùpiter m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ју̀питер)

  1. (inanimate) Jupiter (planet)
  2. (animate) Jupiter (Roman god)

Declension

inanimate
animate

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin Iūpiter (father Jove).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjupicer]
  • Hyphenation: Ju‧pi‧ter

Proper noun

Jupiter m pers (genitive singular Jupitera, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Jupiter (Roman god)

Declension

Derived terms

  • jupiterovský
  • jupiterský

Proper noun

Jupiter m inan (genitive singular Jupitera, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Jupiter (planet)

Declension

References

  • Jupiter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jȗpitər m inan

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

Declension

Planet:

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
More information Masculine inan., hard o-stem, nominative ...

God (or sometimes the planet):

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
More information Masculine anim., hard o-stem, nominative ...

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Swedish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

More information Previous:, Next: ...

Jupiter c (genitive Jupiters)

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (Roman god)

See also

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

Jupiter c (no plural)

  1. Jupiter (planet)
  2. Jupiter (god)

Further reading

  • Jupiter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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