Sirius
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹi.əs/
The English word “Sirius” has 2 meanings listed here.
proper noun
- A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
- The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Etymology
From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
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