Makemake

See also: makemake and Make-make

English

WOTD – 23 July 2008
🝼
Makemake's planetary symbol

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Rapa Nui Makemake.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.keˈmɑ.ke/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Makemake

  1. (mythology) The creator deity in the mythology of Easter Island.
  2. (astronomy) A dwarf planet orbiting in the Kuiper belt, discovered in 2005.

Synonyms

  • (celestial body): 2005 FY9
  • (celestial body): 🝼

Translations

See also

Czech

Etymology

From Rapa Nui Makemake.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmakɛmakɛ]
  • Rhymes: -akɛ
  • Hyphenation: Ma‧ke‧ma‧ke

Proper noun

Makemake m

  1. (mythology, animate) Makemake, the creator deity in the mythology of Easter Island
    • 1972, Stanislav Novotný, “Věčné záhady Velikonočního ostrova”, in Nový orient, volume 27–28:
      Na počest těchto Ptačích mužů, představitelů boha Makemakeho, byly během čekání v Orongo do skal tesány rytiny []
      While waiting in Orongo, people chiselled engravings of these Bird Men, representing the god Makemake []
  2. (astronomy, inanimate) Makemake, a dwarf planet and large Kuiper belt object [since 2008]
    • 2017 October 12, “Jako šišatý Saturn. Vědci našli u trpasličí planety Haumea prstenec”, in Česká televize.cz:
      Haumea byla uznána Mezinárodní astronomickou unií v roce 2008 a je jednou z pěti trpasličích planet vedle Pluta, Ceres, Eris a Makemake.
      Haumea was acknowledged by the International Astronomical Union in 2008 and is one of the five dwarf planets together with Pluto, Ceres, Eris and Makemake.

Declension

masculine animate

The masculine inanimate declension has not been settled in the Czech language yet.

Rapa Nui

Proper noun

Makemake

  1. creator god (also god of fertility) in Rapa Nui mythology
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