See also: mars, MARS, mârs, marš, Марс, and марс

EnglishEdit

 
Mars's planetary symbol
 
Mars (planet)

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (god of war), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors. 𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌓𐌔 (mamers) was his Oscan name. He was also known as Marmor, Marmar and Maris, the latter from the Etruscan deity Maris.

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. (astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol:
    Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
    • 2018 September 22, Carruthers, Marissa, “Five of the best places to go off grid in Asia, get back to nature and away from office phone calls”, in South China Morning Post[1], archived from the original on 23 September 2018, Travel & Leisure:
      With its Mars-like landscape, visiting Gurbantunggut Desert feels like escaping to another world.
  2. (Roman mythology) The Roman god of war.
    Synonym: Ares
    Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.
  3. (poetic) War; a personification of war.
    In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.
    • 1918, Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia, page 57:
      Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.
    • 1944, McGraw-Hill, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 145, page 54:
      A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars ... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities ... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation ...
    • 1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10:
      The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.
SynonymsEdit
  • (astronomy, astrology):
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

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Triton Charon Dysnomia

Etymology 2Edit

After Frank C. Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars.

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. The Mars Bar, a brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
    • 1985, Michael Collier, Longest Day, page 206:
      Easily eight foot tall, each was big, brown and glutinous - like giant Mars Bars squeezed and welded into nightmarish sculptures.
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 3Edit

Alternative forms.

NounEdit

Mars

  1. Alternative form of Mas

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch Mars.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: Mars

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. (astronomy) Mars
  2. (Roman mythology) Mars

See alsoEdit

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. (inanimate) Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system
  2. (Roman mythology, animate) Mars, the Roman god of war

DeclensionEdit

animate
inanimate

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

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Further readingEdit

DanishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)

See alsoEdit

(planets of the solar system) planeter i solsystemet; Merkur,‎ Venus,‎ Jorden/‎jorden,‎ Mars,‎ Jupiter,‎ Saturn,‎ Uranus,‎ Neptun [edit]

DutchEdit

 
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin Mārs.

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. (astronomy) Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

First attested as mersche in 1307. Derived from meers (land next to water, swampland, pasture).

Proper nounEdit

Mars n

  1. A neighbourhood of Land van Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

ReferencesEdit

  • van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

EstonianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

EweEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. March
    Synonym: Tedoxe

FaroeseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Mars
Accusative Mars
Dative Marsi
Genitive Mars

See alsoEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑrs/, [ˈmɑrs̠]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrs
  • Syllabification(key): Mars

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Mars (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Mars
genitive Marsin
partitive Marsia
illative Marsiin
singular plural
nominative Mars
accusative nom. Mars
gen. Marsin
genitive Marsin
partitive Marsia
inessive Marsissa
elative Marsista
illative Marsiin
adessive Marsilla
ablative Marsilta
allative Marsille
essive Marsina
translative Marsiksi
instructive
abessive Marsitta
comitative
Possessive forms of Mars (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Marsini Marsimme
2nd person Marsisi Marsinne
3rd person Marsinsa

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

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Kuu Phobos
Deimos
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Ganymedes
Kallisto
Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Japetus

Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

GermanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Learned borrowing from Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m (proper noun, strong, genitive Mars' or (with an article) Mars)

  1. (Roman mythology) Mars
DeclensionEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m (proper noun, strong, genitive Mars)

  1. (astronomy) Mars

Derived termsEdit

DeclensionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Low German [Term?].

NounEdit

Mars m (strong, genitive Mars, plural Marse) or
Mars f (genitive Mars, plural Marsen)

  1. (nautical) crow's nest
DeclensionEdit

or

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

HungarianEdit

 Mars on Hungarian Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Mars
accusative Marsot
dative Marsnak
instrumental Marssal
causal-final Marsért
translative Marssá
terminative Marsig
essive-formal Marsként
essive-modal
inessive Marsban
superessive Marson
adessive Marsnál
illative Marsba
sublative Marsra
allative Marshoz
elative Marsból
delative Marsról
ablative Marstól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Marsé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Marséi
Possessive forms of Mars
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Marsom
2nd person sing. Marsod
3rd person sing. Marsa
1st person plural Marsunk
2nd person plural Marsotok
3rd person plural Marsuk

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

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Tunglið Fóbos
Deimos
Íó
Evrópa
Ganýmedes
Kallistó
Mímas
Enkeladus
Teþis
Díóne
Rea
Títan
Japetus

Míranda
Aríel
Úmbríel
Títanía
Óberon
Tríton Karon Dysnómía

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

Proper nounEdit

Mars m (genitive Marsa)

  1. Mars (planet)
    Synonym: Máirt
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Mars Mhars not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Latin Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis. Mamers was his Oscan name. He was also known as Marmor, Marmar and Maris, the latter from the Etruscan deity Maris.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mārs m sg (genitive Mārtis); third declension

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

Usage notesEdit

The name of the god could, through interpretatio romana, serve to replace the name of a war god in a foreign language. Thus Saxo Grammaticus, for example, uses the term to refer to the Norse god Odin, alternating it with the borrowed form Ōthinus.

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Mārs
Genitive Mārtis
Dative Mārtī
Accusative Mārtem
Ablative Mārte
Vocative Mārs

NounEdit

Mārs m (genitive Mārtis); third declension

  1. war, battle, conflict
    aequato Martemade equal the battle

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Mārs Mārtēs
Genitive Mārtis Mārtum
Dative Mārtī Mārtibus
Accusative Mārtem Mārtēs
Ablative Mārte Mārtibus
Vocative Mārs Mārtēs

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle English: Mars
  • French: Mars
  • Italian: Marte
  • Portuguese: Marte
  • Romanian: Marte
  • Sicilian: Marti
  • Spanish: Marte

ReferencesEdit

LatvianEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars m

  1. vocative singular form of Marss

Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Mārs.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. The Roman god governing war; Mars.
  2. The red-coloured planet visible to the naked eye: Mars.

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

Northern SamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Norwegian Mars.

PronunciationEdit

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Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)

InflectionEdit

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See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

NorwegianEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /maːrs/, [maːʂ]

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

See alsoEdit

PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin Mārs. Doublet of marzec.

Proper nounEdit

Mars m pers

  1. (Roman mythology) Mars (the Roman god of war)
  2. (astronomy) Mars (the fourth planet from the Sun)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
god
planet

See alsoEdit

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 2Edit

After Frank C. Mars founder of Mars, Incorporated.

Proper nounEdit

Mars m anim

  1. Mars bar (the chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling)
DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Mars in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Mars in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mȁrs m (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рс)

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

DeclensionEdit

SloveneEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mȃrs m anim

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

InflectionEdit

Planet:

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative Márs
genitive Mársa
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
Márs
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dative
(dajȃlnik)
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
Mársu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
Mársom

God (or sometimes the planet):

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative Márs
genitive Mársa
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
Márs
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dative
(dajȃlnik)
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
Mársu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
Mársom

See alsoEdit

(planets of the Solar System) planéti osónčja; Merkúr, Vénera, Zémlja, Márs, Júpiter, Satúrn, Urán, Neptún

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars c (genitive Mars)

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (Roman god)

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

TatarEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English March.

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. March

See alsoEdit

(Gregorian calendar months) Jenueri, Februeri, Mars, Epril, Mei, Jun, Julai, Ogas, Septemba, Oktoba, Novemba, Disemba (Category: tpi:Months)

TurkishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Mars

  1. Mars (planet)
    Synonym: Merih

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Mars c (no plural)

  1. Mars (planet)
  2. Mars (god)

Further readingEdit

  • Mars (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

WolofEdit

NounEdit

Mars

  1. March

ReferencesEdit

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 155