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See also: Planet, planèt, and plånet

English

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The eight planets (sense 3) of the Solar System

Etymology

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From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, wanderer) (itself an ellipsis of ἀστέρες πλανῆται (astéres planêtai, wandering stars)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, wander about, stray), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (wander about, stray), Old Norse flana (to rush about), and Norwegian flanta (to wander about). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plánēs, who wanders around, wanderer), also "wandering star, planet", in medicine "unstable temperature." Displaced native Old English tungol.

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planet (plural planets)

  1. (now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14thc.]
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes [], book II, London: [] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], →OCLC, page 260:
      Be they not dreames of humane vanity, [] to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [translating astre]?
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 288:
      The moon [] began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 361:
      Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
  2. (astronomy, historical) Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)
    Synonyms: wandering star, wanderstar
    • 1640, John Wilkins, A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets, title:
      A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets
  3. (astronomy, current) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [from 2006]
    Synonym: world
    Hypernym: planemo (in IAU usage)
    Hyponyms: binary planet, carbide planet, carbon planet, classical planet, diamond planet, double planet, dual planet, dwarf planet (in non-IAU usage), exoplanet, extrasolar planet, free-floating planet (in non-IAU usage), gas giant, giant planet, hycean planet, ice giant, inferior planet, inner planet, interstellar planet (in non-IAU usage), major planet, mesoplanet, minor planet (in non-IAU usage), outer planet, primary planet (in non-IAU usage), rogue planet (in non-IAU usage), satellite planet (in non-IAU usage), silicate planet, silicon planet, supergiant planet, superior planet, superplanet, terrestrial planet, water planet
    Coordinate terms: brown dwarf, sub-brown dwarf
    • 2006 December 22, Alok Jha, The Guardian:
      Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets and three newly defined "dwarf planets"—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
    • 2009 December 1, Keiichi Wada, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Eiichiro Kokubo, “Planet Formation around Supermassive Black Holes in the Active Galactic Nuclei”, in The Astrophysical Journal, volume 886, number 2, article 107:
    • 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN[1]:
      The closest planet takes just over nine Earth days to complete an orbit around the star, and the most distant takes about 55 days. All of the planets have quicker revolutions around their star than Mercury, which takes 88 days to complete one lap around the sun.
  4. construed with the or this: The Earth.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; []."
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: []; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; [].

Usage notes

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  • The term planet originally meant any star which wandered across the sky, and generally included comets and the Sun and Moon. With the Copernican revolution, the Earth was recognized as a planet, and the Sun was seen to be fundamentally different. The Galilean satellites of Jupiter were at first called planets (satellite planets), but later reclassified along with the Moon. The first asteroids were also considered to be planets, but were reclassified when it was realized that there were a great many of them, crossing each other's orbits, in a zone where only a single planet had been expected. Likewise, Pluto was found where an outer planet had been expected, but doubts were raised when it turned out to cross Neptune's orbit and to be much smaller than the expectation required. When Eris, an outer body more massive than Pluto, was discovered, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word planet as above. However, a significant number of astronomers reject the IAU definition, especially in the field of planetary geology. Some are of the opinion that orbital parameters should be irrelevant, and that either any equilibrium (ellipsoidal) body in direct orbit around a star is a planet (there are likely at least a dozen such bodies in the Solar system) or that any equilibrium body at all is a planet, thus re-accepting the Moon, the Galilean satellites and other large moons as planets, as well as rogue planets.

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Albanian

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Albanian Wikipedia has an article on:
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planet m (plural planete, definite planeti, definite plural planetet)

  1. planet

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Declension of planet
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative planet planeti planete planetet
accusative planetin
dative planeti planetit planeteve planeteve
ablative planetesh

Azerbaijani

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Azerbaijani Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Internationalism; ultimately from Latin planēta and Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, wanderer, planet).

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planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetlər)

  1. (astronomy) planet
    Synonym: səyyarə

Declension

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Declension of planet
singular plural
nominative planetplanetlər
definite accusative planetiplanetləri
dative planetəplanetlərə
locative planetdəplanetlərdə
ablative planetdənplanetlərdən
definite genitive planetinplanetlərin
Possessive forms of planet
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) planetim planetlərim
sənin (your) planetin planetlərin
onun (his/her/its) planeti planetləri
bizim (our) planetimiz planetlərimiz
sizin (your) planetiniz planetləriniz
onların (their) planeti or planetləri planetləri
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) planetimi planetlərimi
sənin (your) planetini planetlərini
onun (his/her/its) planetini planetlərini
bizim (our) planetimizi planetlərimizi
sizin (your) planetinizi planetlərinizi
onların (their) planetini or planetlərini planetlərini
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) planetimə planetlərimə
sənin (your) planetinə planetlərinə
onun (his/her/its) planetinə planetlərinə
bizim (our) planetimizə planetlərimizə
sizin (your) planetinizə planetlərinizə
onların (their) planetinə or planetlərinə planetlərinə
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) planetimdə planetlərimdə
sənin (your) planetində planetlərində
onun (his/her/its) planetində planetlərində
bizim (our) planetimizdə planetlərimizdə
sizin (your) planetinizdə planetlərinizdə
onların (their) planetində or planetlərində planetlərində
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) planetimdən planetlərimdən
sənin (your) planetindən planetlərindən
onun (his/her/its) planetindən planetlərindən
bizim (our) planetimizdən planetlərimizdən
sizin (your) planetinizdən planetlərinizdən
onların (their) planetindən or planetlərindən planetlərindən
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) planetimin planetlərimin
sənin (your) planetinin planetlərinin
onun (his/her/its) planetinin planetlərinin
bizim (our) planetimizin planetlərimizin
sizin (your) planetinizin planetlərinizin
onların (their) planetinin or planetlərinin planetlərinin

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Danish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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planet c (singular definite planeten, plural indefinite planeter)

  1. (astronomy) a planet

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Declension of planet
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative planet planeten planeter planeterne
genitive planets planetens planeters planeternes

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German

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Verb

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planet

  1. second-person plural subjunctive I of planen

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch planeet (planet), from Middle Dutch planete, from Old French planete, from Late Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, wanderer).

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planet (plural planet-planet)

  1. (astronomy) planet
    Synonyms: bintang beredar, bintang siarah

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Middle English

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Noun

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planet

  1. alternative form of planete (planet)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse planéta, from Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, wanderer).

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planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planeter, definite plural planetene)

  1. a planet

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse planéta, from Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, wanderer).

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planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planetar, definite plural planetane)

  1. a planet
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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planet n

  1. definite singular of plan

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Polish

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Etymology 1

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

    Noun

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    planet m inan (related adjective planetowy)

    1. (horticulture) manual tool for weeding and loosening the soil, in the form of a toothed frame on wheels
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    Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Noun

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      planet f

      1. genitive plural of planeta

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      • planet”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
      • planet in PWN's encyclopedia

      Romanian

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      Noun

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      planet m (plural planeți)

      1. alternative form of planetă

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      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative planet planetul planeți planeții
      genitive-dative planet planetului planeți planeților
      vocative planetule planeților

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      planet m (plural planets)

      1. (astronomy, astrology) planet

      Serbo-Croatian

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      • IPA(key): /plǎneːt/
      • Hyphenation: pla‧net

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      plànēt m inan (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄т)

      1. (usually Croatia) planet

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      Declension of planet
      singular plural
      nominative planet planeti
      genitive planeta planeta
      dative planetu planetima
      accusative planet planete
      vocative planete planeti
      locative planetu planetima
      instrumental planetom planetima

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      • planet”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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      planẹ̑t m inan

      1. (astronomy) planet

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      Unknown tone or non-tonal
      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.
      Masculine inan., hard o-stem
      nom. sing. planét
      gen. sing. planéta
      singular dual plural
      nominative
      (imenovȃlnik)
      planét planéta planéti
      genitive
      (rodȋlnik)
      planéta planétov planétov
      dative
      (dajȃlnik)
      planétu planétoma planétom
      accusative
      (tožȋlnik)
      planét planéta planéte
      locative
      (mẹ̑stnik)
      planétu planétih planétih
      instrumental
      (orọ̑dnik)
      planétom planétoma planéti

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      • planet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
      • planet”, in Termania, Amebis
      • See also the general references

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      Etymology 1

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      Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs).

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      planet c

      1. (astronomy) planet
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      Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      planet

      1. definite singular of plan

      Turkish

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French planète.

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      • IPA(key): /plaˈnet/
      • Rhymes: -et
      • Hyphenation: pla‧net

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      planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetler)

      1. (astronomy, rare) planet
        Synonyms: gezegen, (archaic) seyyare

      Declension

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      Declension of planet
      singular plural
      nominative planet planetler
      definite accusative planeti planetleri
      dative planete planetlere
      locative planette planetlerde
      ablative planetten planetlerden
      genitive planetin planetlerin
      Possessive forms
      nominative
      singular plural
      1st singular planetim planetlerim
      2nd singular planetin planetlerin
      3rd singular planeti planetleri
      1st plural planetimiz planetlerimiz
      2nd plural planetiniz planetleriniz
      3rd plural planetleri planetleri
      definite accusative
      singular plural
      1st singular planetimi planetlerimi
      2nd singular planetini planetlerini
      3rd singular planetini planetlerini
      1st plural planetimizi planetlerimizi
      2nd plural planetinizi planetlerinizi
      3rd plural planetlerini planetlerini
      dative
      singular plural
      1st singular planetime planetlerime
      2nd singular planetine planetlerine
      3rd singular planetine planetlerine
      1st plural planetimize planetlerimize
      2nd plural planetinize planetlerinize
      3rd plural planetlerine planetlerine
      locative
      singular plural
      1st singular planetimde planetlerimde
      2nd singular planetinde planetlerinde
      3rd singular planetinde planetlerinde
      1st plural planetimizde planetlerimizde
      2nd plural planetinizde planetlerinizde
      3rd plural planetlerinde planetlerinde
      ablative
      singular plural
      1st singular planetimden planetlerimden
      2nd singular planetinden planetlerinden
      3rd singular planetinden planetlerinden
      1st plural planetimizden planetlerimizden
      2nd plural planetinizden planetlerinizden
      3rd plural planetlerinden planetlerinden
      genitive
      singular plural
      1st singular planetimin planetlerimin
      2nd singular planetinin planetlerinin
      3rd singular planetinin planetlerinin
      1st plural planetimizin planetlerimizin
      2nd plural planetinizin planetlerinizin
      3rd plural planetlerinin planetlerinin
      Predicative forms
      singular plural
      1st singular planetim planetlerim
      2nd singular planetsin planetlersin
      3rd singular planet
      planettir
      planetler
      planetlerdir
      1st plural planetiz planetleriz
      2nd plural planetsiniz planetlersiniz
      3rd plural planetler planetlerdir

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