Copernicus

Borrowed from Latin Copernicus.

Copernicus

1. 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.

• Copernican
• copernicium

• superconic

• Coppernicus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈpɛr.nɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈpɛr.ni.kus]

Latinized from Old Polish Kopernik + -us.

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

Named after Prussian polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

1. (astronomy) The star ρ1 Cancri in the constellation Cancer.^[1]

Second-declension noun, singular only.