English

Proper noun

Cetus

1. (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a whale. It includes the star Mira.

Derived terms

• Ceti

Translations

Anagrams

• scute

Spanish

Proper noun

Cetus ?

1. (astronomy) Cetus (winter constellation of the northern sky)

Latin

Alternative forms

• cētos n

Noun

cētus m ‎(genitive cētī); second declension

1. Any large sea animal, such as a whale, shark or dolphin.
2. The constellation Cetus, the Whale.

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• Cēto

References

• cetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CETUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cetus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cetus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers