When Ceres was first discovered it was called a comet. Within a year it was called a planet. Within one more year it was called an asteroid. Since 2006, it has been called a dwarf planet.
Source: tatoeba (3957464)
Ceres
//ˈsɪəɹiːz//
Synonyms for "ceres" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
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Related words (46)
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Translations
117 translations across 84 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- Церера name (asteroid)
Afrikaans
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
Amharic
1 entries- ሴሬስ name (asteroid)
Arabic
1 entries- سِيرِيس name (asteroid)
Armenian
2 entries- Սերես name (asteroid)
- Ցերերա name (asteroid)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- Serera name (Roman goddess)
- Serera name (asteroid)
Belarusian
1 entries- Цэрэ́ра name (asteroid)
Bengali
1 entries- সেরেস name (asteroid)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Цере́ра name (asteroid)
Burmese
1 entries- စီးရပ်စ် name (asteroid)
Chechen
1 entries- Церера name (asteroid)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᏎᎵᏏ name (Roman goddess)
- ᏎᎵᏏ name (asteroid)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 穀神星 /谷神星 name (asteroid)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刻瑞斯 name (Roman goddess)
- 穀神星 /谷神星 name (asteroid)
Czech
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
Esperanto
2 entries- Cereso name (Roman goddess)
- Cereso name (asteroid)
Estonian
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Fijian
1 entries- Seresi name (asteroid)
Finnish
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
French
2 entries- Cérès name (Roman goddess)
- Cérès name (asteroid)
Georgian
1 entries- ცერერა name (asteroid)
German
3 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
- Zeres name (Roman goddess)
Greek
3 entries- Δήμητρα name (Roman goddess)
- Δήμητρα name (asteroid)
- Κέρες name (asteroid)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- Sèrès name (asteroid)
Hawaiian
1 entries- Keleka name (asteroid)
Hebrew
1 entries- קרס name (asteroid)
Hindi
2 entries- बलराम name (asteroid)
- सीरीज़ name (Roman goddess)
Hungarian
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Indonesian
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Irish
1 entries- Ceiréas name (asteroid)
Italian
2 entries- Cerere name (Roman goddess)
- Cerere name (asteroid)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- Siires name (asteroid)
Japanese
4 entries- ケレス name (asteroid)
- ケレース name (Roman goddess)
- セレス name (Roman goddess)
- セレス name (asteroid)
Javanese
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Kannada
1 entries- ಸೆರೆಸ್ name (asteroid)
Kazakh
1 entries- Церера name (asteroid)
Khmer
2 entries- សិរ្ស៍ name (Roman goddess)
- សឺរេស name (asteroid)
Korean
2 entries- 세레스 name (asteroid)
- 케레스 name (Roman goddess)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- Церера name (asteroid)
Lao
3 entries- ສິຣິສ name (Roman goddess)
- ສິຣິສ name (asteroid)
- ເຊເຣສ name (Roman goddess)
Latin
2 entries- Cerēs name (Roman goddess)
- Cerēs name (asteroid)
Latvian
1 entries- Cerera name (asteroid)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Cerera name (asteroid)
Malay
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Malayalam
1 entries- സെറസ് name (asteroid)
Maltese
1 entries- Ċerere name (asteroid)
Marathi
1 entries- सेरेस name (asteroid)
Navajo
1 entries- Séwes name (asteroid)
Nepali
1 entries- सेरेस name (asteroid)
Odia
1 entries- ସେରେସ୍ name (asteroid)
Ossetian
1 entries- Церера name (asteroid)
Pashto
1 entries- سیرس name (asteroid)
Persian
1 entries- سرس name (asteroid)
Polish
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
Portuguese
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
Quechua
1 entries- Siris name (asteroid)
Romanian
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Russian
2 entries- Цере́ра name (Roman goddess)
- Цере́ра name (asteroid)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Cerera name (asteroid)
- Церера name (asteroid)
Sicilian
2 entries- Cèriri name (Roman goddess)
- Cèriri name (asteroid)
Sinhalese
1 entries- සෙරෙස් name (asteroid)
Slovak
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Slovene
1 entries- Cêrera name (asteroid)
Somali
1 entries- Siires name (asteroid)
Spanish
2 entries- Ceres name (Roman goddess)
- Ceres name (asteroid)
Swahili
2 entries- Seresi name (Roman goddess)
- Seresi name (asteroid)
Swedish
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Tagalog
1 entries- Seres name (asteroid)
Tajik
1 entries- Серера name (asteroid)
Tamil
1 entries- செரிஸ் name (asteroid)
Thai
3 entries- ซีรีส name (asteroid)
- เคเรส name (Roman goddess)
- เทพีซีรีส name (Roman goddess)
Tibetan
1 entries- སེ་རེས། name (asteroid)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- Seres name (asteroid)
Tongan
1 entries- Selesi name (asteroid)
Tswana
1 entries- Serese name (asteroid)
Turkish
1 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
Turkmen
1 entries- Serera name (asteroid)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Цере́ра name (asteroid)
Urdu
1 entries- سیرس name (asteroid)
Uyghur
1 entries- سېرېرا name (asteroid)
Uzbek
1 entries- Serera name (asteroid)
Venetan
1 entries- Cerere name (asteroid)
Vietnamese
2 entries- Ceres name (asteroid)
- sao Cốc Thần name (asteroid)
Wolof
1 entries- Seres name (asteroid)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Ceres was discovered on January 1, 1801 by Italian Giuseppe Piazzi. He discovered it while searching for a star.
Source: tatoeba (3957466)
Italian Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres on January 1, 1801 while he was searching for a star. He first believed that he had discovered a comet, but he was not confident in his belief.
Source: tatoeba (3957468)
It takes approximately 4.6 Earth years for Ceres to make one revolution around the Sun.
Source: tatoeba (3957471)
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