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Circinus
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circinus
English
Etymology
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From en la circinus a pair of compasses
Proper noun
en constellation A small constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a compass. It lies between the constellations of Centaurus and Triangulum Australe.
Derived terms
en Circini
Translations
a small constellation of the southern winter sky
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 圓規座
Esperanto: eo Cirkelo
Finnish: fi Harppi
French: fr Compas m
Galician: gl Compás
German: de Zirkel m
Hindi: hi परकार तारामंडल
Irish: ga Compás m an Compás
Japanese: ja コンパス座 Konpasu-za
Kazakh: kk Циркуль
Korean: ko ^컴퍼스자리
Malay: ms Kompas
Polish: pl Cyrkiel m
Russian: ru Ци́ркуль m
Spanish: es Circinus
Spanish
es:
Proper noun
es constellation en Circinus a small constellation of the southern winter sky