Where does “Copernicus” come from?
Copernicus is the Latinized name of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, derived from Latin Copernicus, a Latinization of his Polish surname Kopernik.
Copernicus (English): a surname
Definitions
- a surname
Ancestry of “Copernicus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Copernicus | The star ρ1 Cancri in the constellation Cancer |
| 2 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 3 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |