Cassiopeia

• Cassiope

From Latin Cassiopēia, from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia) or Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæs.i.əˈpiː.ə/
• enPR: kăs′ē-ō-pē′yə

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Cassiopeia

1. (Greek mythology) Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.
2. (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky representing Queen Cassiopeia from Greek myth, lying between the constellations Cepheus and Perseus.

• (constellation): Achird, Caph, Fulu, Ruchbah, Schedar, Segin

• (constellation): Cas (abbreviated form), Cassiopeiae (Latin genitive form)
• Cassiopeia's Chair

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.si.joːˈpeː.jaː/, /ˌkɑ.si.joːˈpɛi̯.jaː/

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Cassiopeia f

1. (astronomy) Cassiopeia

• Cassiopē
• Cassiopēa, Cassiepēa, Cassiepīa, Cassiepeia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia) or Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kas.si.ɔˈpɛi̯.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kas.si.oˈpɛi̯.a]

Cassiopeia f sg (genitive Cassiopeiae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Cassiopeia (the proud wife of Ethiopian king Cepheus and mother of Andromeda)
2. (astronomy) the constellation Cassiopeia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Cassĭŏpē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 Cassĭŏpē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Cassiopéia (pre-1990 spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin Cassiopēa.^[1]

• Hyphenation: Cas‧si‧o‧pei‧a

Cassiopeia f

1. (Greek mythology) Cassiopeia (wife of Cepheus)
2. (astronomy) Cassiopeia (a constellation of the northern sky)

• IPA^(key): /kasjoˈpeja/ [ka.sjoˈpe.ja]
• Rhymes: -eja
• Syllabification: Cas‧sio‧pe‧ia

Cassiopeia f

1. (astronomy) Cassiopeia (constellation)