Georgium Sidus

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  1. The planet Uranus. obsolete
    — I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus […] to a star, which (with respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

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Learned borrowing from Latin Geōrgium Sīdus. Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III.
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