by neufer » Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:06 pm
De58te wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:37 pm
Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but Saturn isn't really 'wandering' through the Earth's evening skies over the 55 nights. It is actually the much more speedier planet Earth zipping by the more slower Saturn.
Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but "much more speedier" and "more slower" aint proper English.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/planet#etymonline_v_16437 wrote:
planet (n.) late Old English planete, from Old French planete (Modern French planète), from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planetes, from (asteres) planetai "wandering (stars)," from planasthai "to wander," a word of uncertain etymology. Beekes notes the similarity of meaning to Greek plazein "to make devious, repel, dissuade from the right path, bewilder," but adds, "it is hard to think of a formal connection."
So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s. An enlarged form of Greek planes, planetos "who wanders around, wanderer," also "wandering star, planet," in medicine "unstable temperature."
[quote=De58te post_id=286160 time=1538224631 user_id=141631]
Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but Saturn isn't really 'wandering' through the Earth's evening skies over the 55 nights. It is actually the much more speedier planet Earth zipping by the more slower Saturn.[/quote]
Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but "much more speedier" and "more slower" aint proper English.
[quote=" https://www.etymonline.com/word/planet#etymonline_v_16437"]
planet (n.) late Old English planete, from Old French planete (Modern French planète), from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planetes, from (asteres) planetai "wandering (stars)," from planasthai "to wander," a word of uncertain etymology. Beekes notes the similarity of meaning to Greek plazein "to make devious, repel, dissuade from the right path, bewilder," but adds, "it is hard to think of a formal connection."
So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s. An enlarged form of Greek planes, planetos "who wanders around, wanderer," also "wandering star, planet," in medicine "unstable temperature."[/quote]