Ceres

Latin Cerēs, goddess of the bounty, akin to crēare (“to create”), crēscere (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow”). More at create.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹiːz/
• Hyphenation: Ce‧res

Ceres

1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter.
2. (astronomy) A celestial body orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the largest asteroid and innermost dwarf planet; officially called 1 Ceres.

• (astronomy): 1 Ceres, ⚳

• cereal
• cerium
• Cerean, Cererean, Cererian

• (dwarf planets of the Solar System) dwarf planets of the Solar System; Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Salacia, Varuna, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, 2007 OR10, Eris, Sedna
• (mythology): Ceres on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (astronomy): Ceres (dwarf planet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Crees, scree

From English Ceres, from Latin Cerēs, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow”).

Ceres

1. (Roman mythology) the Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter
2. (astronomy) 1 Ceres; a celestial body orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the largest asteroid and innermost dwarf planet

From Latin Cerēs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛrɛs]
• Rhymes: -ɛrɛs
• Hyphenation: Ce‧res

Ceres

1. (Roman mythology, feminine) Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter.
   • 2014, Mireia Ryšková, Pavel z Tarsu a jeho svět‎, Praha: Karolinum, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 436:

     Filón kritizuje i náboženská shromáždění a průvody k poctě bohyně Cerery, […]

     Philo criticises also the religious meetings and parades in honour of the goddes Ceres, […]

2. (astronomy, feminine, masculine inanimate) Ceres, a dwarf planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter
   • 2017 February 17, kar, “Na trpasličí planetě Ceres jsme našli organický materiál, oznámila NASA”, in ČT24‎, Česká televize, archived from the original on 2018-01-01:

     Mise Dawn, v jejímž rámci NASA zkoumá trpasličí planetu Ceres, našla důkazy o organickém materiálu.

     The Dawn mission, in which NASA explores the dwarf planet Ceres, found evidence of organic material.

   • 2017 October 24, Petr Kubala, “Sonda Dawn zůstane věrná Cereře”, in VTM‎, archived from the original on 2017-11-14:

     Dawn bude Cereru zkoumat i v době, kdy bude nejblíže od Slunce.

     Dawn is going to explore Ceres also during the time when it is nearest from the Sun.

Both the name of the goddess and the celestial body are traditionally feminine, but in modern usage the latter one is sometimes also treated as indeclinable or inflected as masculine inanimate.

feminine

(goddess, dwarf planet):

masculine inanimate

(dwarf planet):

• Cereřin

• Přidej špetku juna, Naše řeč, volume 56 (1973)

From Latin Cerēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeres/, [ˈke̞re̞s̠]
• Hyphenation: Ce‧res

Ceres

1. Ceres

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow”). Cognate with creō, crēscō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.reːs/, [ˈkɛ.reːs]

Cerēs f (genitive Cereris); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Ceres (Roman goddess)
2. (astronomy, New Latin) Ceres (dwarf planet)

Third declension.

• Cereālis

• Ceres in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ceres in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ceres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Ceres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Ceres in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ceres in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Latin Cerēs.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɾis/

Ceres f

1. (Roman mythology) Ceres (goddess of agriculture)

Ceres m

1. (astronomy) Ceres (dwarf planet in the Solar System)

• cereal

• Deméter

Ceres f

1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter.

Ceres m

1. (astronomy) Ceres (dwarf planet)