Etymology
From Middle English Neptune, Neptunus, a borrowing from Latin Neptūnus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰ-tu-s (“damp, cloudy”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist."
Puhvel, however, connects it with Proto-Italic *nepōts from Proto-Indo-European *népōts by analogy to Portūnus, cognate with Vedic Apām Napāt and Avestan Apąm Napāt, Child (cf: neve, nephew) of the Water as part of an Indo-European 'Fire in the Water' myth.
Proper noun
Neptune
- (astronomy) The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆. [from 1846]
1846 November 21, “A NEW PLANET-BEAUTIFUL DISCOVERY.”, in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, number 146, page 336, column 1:At a meeting of the French Academy of Science, M. Leverrier presented a fifth and final memoir on the new planet, which M. Arago proposes to be called Neptune.
- (Roman mythology) The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.
- Alternative form: Neptunus
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms
- (astronomy, astrology): ♆
- (astronomy): (rare) ⯉
Translations
eighth planet of the solar system
- Abkhaz: Нептун (Nepʼtʼun)
- Afrikaans: Neptunus
- Amharic: ኔፕቱን (neptun)
- Arabic: نِبْتُون (niptūn)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܹܦܬܘܼܢܘܿܣ m (neptunos)
- Armenian: Նեպտուն (hy) (Neptun)
- Azerbaijani: Neptun (az)
- Bashkir: Нептун (Neptun)
- Basque: Neptuno (eu)
- Belarusian: Непту́н m (Njeptún), (Taraškievica orthography) Нэпту́н m (Neptún)
- Bengali: নেপচুন (bn) (nepcun)
- Burmese: နက်ပကျွန်း (nakpa.kywan:)
- Catalan: Neptú m
- Chechen: Нептун (Neptun)
- Cherokee: Ꮑ'ᏚᏂ (ne'duni), ᏧᏁᎵᏁ ᎡᎶᎯ (tsuneline elohi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 海王星 (hoi2 wong4 sing1)
- Hokkien: 海王星 (Hái-ông-chheⁿ, Hái-ông-chhiⁿ)
- Mandarin: 海王星 (zh) (Hǎiwángxīng)
- Cornish: Nevyon m
- Czech: Neptun (cs) m
- Danish: Neptun (da)
- Dutch: Neptunus (nl) n
- Dzongkha: ནེཔ་ཊུན (nep ṭun)
- Esperanto: Neptuno (eo)
- Estonian: Neptuun
- Faroese: Neptun m
- Fijian: Nepituni
- Finnish: Neptunus (fi)
- French: Neptune (fr) m
- Galician: Neptuno (gl) m
- Georgian: ნეპტუნი (neṗṭuni)
- German: Neptun (de) m
- Greek: Ποσειδώνας (el) m (Poseidónas)
- Haitian Creole: Neptin
- Hawaiian: Nepekune
- Hebrew: נפטון (he) m (néptun), רהב (he) m (raháv)
- Hindi: वरुण (hi) m (varuṇ), नेप्च्युन (hi) m (nepcyun)
- Hungarian: Neptunusz (hu)
- Icelandic: Neptúnus (is) m
- Ido: Neptuno (io)
- Indonesian: Neptunus
- Interlingua: Neptuno
- Inuktitut: ᓂᑉᑑᓐ (niptoon)
- Italian: Nettuno (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: Neptyuun
- Japanese: 海王星 (ja) (かいおうせい, Kaiōsei), (katakana) ネプチューン (ja) (Nepuchūn), (katakana) ネプトゥーン (Neputūn)
- Javanese: Neptunus
- Kannada: ನೆಪ್ಚೂನ್ (nepcūn)
- Karakalpak: Neptun
- Kazakh: Нептун (Neptun)
- Khmer: ភពណិបទូន (pʰup nəptuun), កេតុ (km) (ket)
- Korean: 해왕성 (ko) (haewangseong)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نێپتوون (ckb) (nêptûn)
- Kyrgyz: Нептун (Neptun)
- Lao: ເນບຕູນ (nēp tūn)
- Latin: Neptunus (la) m
- Latvian: Neptūns m
- Lingala: Neptuné
- Lithuanian: Neptūnas (lt) m
- Macedonian: Не́птун m (Néptun)
- Malagasy: Neptiona
- Malay: Neptun (ms)
- Malayalam: നെപ്റ്റ്യൂൺ (nepṟṟyūṇ)
- Maltese: Nettunu m
- Maori: Tangaroa
- Marathi: नेपच्यून (nepacyūn)
- Mongolian: Далайн ван (Dalajn van)
- Nahuatl: Tlāloccītlalli
- Navajo: Néʼtoon
- Nepali: वरुणग्रह (varuṇagraha)
- Norman: Nepteune m (Jersey)
- Norwegian: Neptun (no)
- Odia: ନେପଚୁନ (nepacuna)
- Ossetian: Нептун (Neptun)
- Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) Netúno
- Pashto: نیپټون m (neptoon)
- Persian: نپتون (fa) (neptun)
- Polish: Neptun (pl) m
- Portuguese: Netuno (pt) m
- Quechua: Niptun
- Romanian: Neptun (ro) m
- Russian: Непту́н (ru) m (Neptún)
- Santali: ᱵᱷᱩᱛ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ (sat) (bhut ẽgel)
- Scottish Gaelic: Neaptun m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Нептун m
- Roman: Neptun (sh) m
- Shona: Nyn'aimamushana
- Sinhalese: නෙප්චූන් (nepcūn)
- Slovak: Neptún m
- Slovene: Neptún (sl) m
- Somali: Nebtuun, Docay
- Spanish: Neptuno (es) m
- Swahili: Kausi (sw), Neptuni
- Swedish: Neptunus (sv) c
- Tagalog: Neptuno
- Tajik: Нептун (Neptun)
- Tamil: நெப்டியூன் (ta) (nepṭiyūṉ)
- Tatar: Neptun (tt)
- Telugu: నెప్త్యూన్ (neptyūn), ఇంద్రుడు (te) (indruḍu)
- Thai: ดาวเนปจูน (th) (daaw neep-juun), ดาวเกตุ (th) (daaw geet)
- Tibetan: སྐར་མ་མཚོ་རྒྱལ (skar ma mtsho rgyal)
- Tok Pisin: Neptun
- Tongan: Nepituno
- Tswana: Nepthune
- Tumbuka: Vidinda, Chanya la Vidinda, Neputuni
- Turkish: Neptün (tr)
- Turkmen: Neptun
- Ukrainian: Непту́н m (Neptún)
- Uzbek: Neptun
- Venetan: Netun m
- Vietnamese: sao Hải Vương (vi), Sao Hải Vương (vi)
- Volapük: näptun (vo)
- Welsh: Neifion (cy) m
- Wolof: Neptuun
- Yakut: Нептун (Neptun)
- Yiddish: נעפּטון m (neptun)
- Yoruba: Nẹ́ptúnù
- Zhuang: Ndaundeiqhaijvuengz
- Zulu: uNepuhthuni class 1, uNolundwa
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