Boötes

• Bootes

From Latin Boōtēs, the constellation, from Ancient Greek Βοώτης (Boṓtēs).

• enPR: bō-ōʹtēz, IPA^(key): /boʊˈoʊtiːz/

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Boötes

1. (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, called the “bear-guard” or the “herdsman”. It includes the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, Arcturus.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
     As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
     Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.

• Boötis

• besoot

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Boötes m

1. (astronomy) Boötes

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