Ganymede
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ganymede in British English:
UK [ˈɡænimi:d]
How to pronounce Ganymede in American English:
US [ˈɡænəˌmid]
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- Noun:
- the largest of Jupiter's satellites
Word Origin
- Ganymede
- Trojan youth taken by Zeus as his cup-bearer (and lover), from Greek Ganymedes, perhaps a non-Greek name, or from ganymai "I rejoice, am glad" (related to ganos "brightness; sheen; gladness, joy; pride") + medea (plural) "counsels, plans, cunning" (see Medea); taken in Greek folk-etymology to mean "delighting in genitals." Used figuratively of serving-boys (c. 1600) and catamites (1590s). Associated with Aquarius in the zodiac. As the name of one of the four large satellites of Jupiter, by 1847.
Example
- 1. This phenomenon has been observed on other icy satellites , such as jupiter 's ganymede .
- 2. Nasa 's hubble space telescope caught jupiter 's moon , ganymede , seemingly playing a game of peek-a-boo in this image from april 2007 .
- 3. Hubble 's view is so sharp that astronomers can see features on ganymede 's surface , most notably the white impact crater , tros , and its system of rays , bright streaks of material blasted from the crater .
- 4. Ganymede completes an orbit around jupiter every seven days .
- 5. Specifically , dr kipping reckons , they would need to have at least a fifth of the mass of earth . Ganymede , jupiter 's most massive satellite ( and also the biggest in the local solar system ) , has only a fortieth of the earth 's mass .