Scorpion

From the animal scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

the Scorpion

1. (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Scorpius.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     And now thir way to Earth they had descri'd, / To Paradise first tending, when behold / Satan in likeness of an Angel bright / Betwixt the Centaure and the Scorpion stearing / His Zenith, while the Sun in Aries rose […]

   • 1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 20:

     The Scorpion keepeth the Bladder, Buttocks, and other privatives [sic] of Man or Woman.

   • 1821, Thomas Kerigan, The young navigator's guide to the sidereal and planetary parts of nautical astronomy, page 73:

     Ras Alhague is […] nearly due north of Lesath, in the tail of the Scorpion, at the distance of 51 degrees: […]

   • 1882, Robert Brown, On a German Astronomico-astrological Manuscript, and on the Origin of the Signs of the Zodiac, London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, page 8:

     The Crab and the Scorpion much resemble each other, as indeed they do in many other instances, the former being a reduplication of the latter.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 123:

     Smiling proudly, he glanced outward at the country, which was still invisible except as a dark movement in the darkness; then upwards at the sky, where the stars of the sprawling Scorpion had begun to pale.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 112:

     ‘I have it!’ said the excited magician. ‘I have the Sign of the Scorpion!’

Scorpion (plural Scorpions)

1. (astrology) Someone with the Scorpio star sign.
   • 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2:

     No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer. No nylons for Scorpions.

Scorpion (not comparable)

1. (astrology) Of or relating to the Scorpio star sign.

From Latin scorpiōnem (“scorpion”).

• IPA^(key): /skɔʁ.pjɔ̃/

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Scorpion m

1. (astrology) the celestial constellation Scorpio
2. (astronomy) the zodiac sign Scorpio

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Borrowed from French scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

Scorpion

1. (astronomy, astrology) Scorpio