Arcturus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Arcturus in British English:
UK [ɑ:kˈtjurəs]
How to pronounce Arcturus in American English:
US [ɑrkˈtʊrəs, -ˈtjʊr-]
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- Noun:
- the 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth
Word Origin
- Arcturus
- late 14c., bright star in the constellation Bootes (also used of the whole constellation), from Latin Arcturus, from Greek Arktouros; anciently associated with the Bear, and its name is Greek for "guardian of the bear." See arctic; second element is from ouros "watcher, guardian, ward," from PIE root *wer- (4) "perceive" (see ward (n.)). Arcturus in the Bible (Job ix:9 and xxxviii:32) is a mistranslation by Jerome (continued in KJV) of Hebrew 'Ayish, which refers to what we see as the "bowl" of the Big Dipper. In Israel and Arabia, the seven stars of the Great Bear seem to have been a bier (the "bowl") followed by three mourners. In the Septuagint it was translated as Pleiada, which is equally incorrect. The double nature of the great bear/wagon (see Big Dipper) has given two different names to the constellation that follows it: Arktouros "bear-ward" and bootes "the wagoner."
Example
- 1. Arcturus leaned back in his seat .
- 2. Just then arcturus heard the sound of one of the men clearing his throat .
- 3. All members of the ghost program were nothing more than numbers-but this man meant far more , especially to arcturus mengsk , because he was one of the three .
- 4. He was older , gray-haired , but he had arcturus 's same eyes , the same hawkish nose .
- 5. In the waking world , arcturus did not see himself as the leader-type at all . He didn 't care about the affairs of others ; he didn 't care about the confederacy .