Copernicus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Copernicus.

Proper noun

Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

Derived terms

Translations

surname of Nicolaus Copernicus

Arabic: كُوبِرْنِيكُوس m (kubirnikus)
Bulgarian: Копе́рник m (Kopérnik)
Catalan: Copèrnic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哥白尼 (zh) (Gēbáiní)
Czech: Koperník m
Danish: Kopernikus
Esperanto: Koperniko
Finnish: Kopernikus
German: Copernicus, Kopernikus m, Koppernick
Greek: Κοπέρνικος (el) m (Kopérnikos)
Hindi: कोपरनिकस (koparnikas)
Italian: Copernico m
Japanese: コペルニクス (Koperunikusu)
Korean: 코페르니쿠스 (Kopereunikuseu)
Persian: کوپرنیک (kupernik)
Polish: Kopernik (pl) m
Portuguese: Copérnico m
Russian: Копе́рник (ru) m (Kopérnik)
Spanish: Copérnico

Anagrams

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Latin

Alternative forms

Coppernicus

Etymology

Latinized from Old Polish Kopernik + -us.

Proper noun

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

(Renaissance Latin, New Latin) a male surname from Polish — famously held by:
1. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer and mathematician

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Copernicus
genitive	Copernicī
dative	Copernicō
accusative	Copernicum
ablative	Copernicō
vocative	Copernice

Descendants

→ Catalan: Copèrnic (learned)
→ English: Copernicus
→ German: Copernicus, Kopernikus