Noun: asteroid
| Singular | asteroid |
| Plural | asteroids |
Sample Sentences
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The orbital planes of asteroids, minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ... [2007, Hannu Karttunen et al., editors, Fundamental Astronomy, 5th edition, page 131:]
Nouns inflected like asteroid
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
]Introduced by German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1802 upon the suggestion of classical scholar Charles Burney Jr. (1757–1817), the son of music historian Charles Burney, a friend of Herschel's. Probably coined as a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs, “starlike”), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “celestial body”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, aster + -oid.
Verbs referencing "asteroid"
Finnish Nouns
asteroidi, Polish Nouns
asteroida, French Nouns
astéroïde, Irish Nouns
astaróideach, Dutch Nouns
asteroïde, Hungarian Nouns
aszteroida.