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Neptune

//ˈnɛptuːn// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆.

    "At a meeting of the French Academy of Science, M. Leverrier presented a fifth and final memoir on the new planet, which M. Arago proposes to be called Neptune."

  2. 2
    The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology. Roman

    "And Pitheus alſo had giuen it out abroad, that he was begotten of Neptune, becauſe the TROEZENIANS haue this god in great veneration, and doe worſhip him as patron and protector of their citie, making offerings to him of their firſt fruits: and they haue for the marke and ſtamp of their money, the three picked mace, which is the ſigne of Neptune, called his Trident."

  3. 3
    A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
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  1. 6
    An unincorporated community in Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

From Middle English Neptune, Neptunus, a borrowing from Latin Neptūnus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰ-tu-s (“damp, cloudy”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist." Puhvel, however, connects it with Proto-Italic *nepōts from Proto-Indo-European *népōts by analogy to Portūnus, cognate with Vedic Apām Napāt and Avestan Apąm Napāt, Child (cf: neve, nephew) of the Water as part of an Indo-European 'Fire in the Water' myth.

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