Piena Ceļš

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Piena Ceļš

The name follows the model of most European languages (cf English Milky Way), going back to Ancient Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxías), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).

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Piena Ceļš m (1st declension)

(astronomy) the Milky Way (the galaxy which contains the Solar System)
Piena Ceļa galaktika ― the Milky Way galaxy

visas pie debesīm redzamās zvaigznes ietilpst milzīgā zvaigžņu sistēmā, un to mēs parasti saucam par Galaktiku jeb Piena Ceļu ― all stars visible on the sky belong to a huge star system, and that (star system) we call Galaxy or Milky Way
(astronomy) the Milky Way (the band of diffuse light visible in the night sky; our local vision of the Milky Way galaxy)

Declension of Piena Ceļš (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Piena Ceļš	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Piena Ceļu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Piena Ceļa	—
dative (datīvs)	Piena Ceļam	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Piena Ceļu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Piena Ceļā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Piena Ceļ	—