cosmonaut

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”), may be decomposed as cosmo- +‎ -naut.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏz'mənôt
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒz.məˌnɔːt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.məˌnɔt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑz.məˌnɑt/

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Noun

cosmonaut (plural cosmonauts)

1. An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.

Derived terms

• cosmonautic
• cosmonautical
• cosmonautics
• cosmonette
• dogmonaut

Related terms

• aeronaut
• astronaut
• cosmos
• spationaut
• taikonaut

Translations

an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one — see also astronaut

• Arabic: رَجُل فَضَاء m (rajul faḍāʔ), رَائِد فَضَاء m (rāʔid faḍāʔ), مَلَّاح فَضَائِيّ m (mallāḥ faḍāʔiyy)
• Armenian: տիեզերագնաց (hy) (tiezeragnacʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kosmonavt
• Belarusian: касмана́ўт m (kasmanáŭt)
• Bulgarian: космона́вт (bg) m (kosmonávt)
• Catalan: cosmonauta (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太空人 (zh) (tàikōngrén), 宇航員 / 宇航员 (zh) (yǔhángyuán), 航天員 / 航天员 (zh) (hángtiānyuán), 宇宙飛行員 / 宇宙飞行员 (yǔzhòu fēixíngyuán)

• Cornish: stervarner m, stervarnores f
• Czech: kosmonaut (cs) m
• Dutch: kosmonaut (nl) m
• Esperanto: kosmonaŭto
• Estonian: kosmonaut
• Finnish: kosmonautti (fi)
• French: cosmonaute (fr) m
• Galician: cosmonauta (gl) m or f
• Georgian: კოსმონავტი (ḳosmonavṭi)
• German: Kosmonaut (de) m
• Greek: κοσμοναύτης (el) m (kosmonáftis)
• Hebrew: קוסמונאוט m (kosmonaut), קוסמונאוטית f (kosmonaut'it)
• Hungarian: kozmonauta (hu)
• Ido: kosmonauto (io)
• Italian: cosmonauta (it)
• Japanese: 宇宙飛行士 (ja) (うちゅうひこうし, uchū hikōshi), コスモノート (kosumonōto)
• Korean: 우주비행사(宇宙飛行士) (ko) (ujubihaengsa)
• Kyrgyz: учурчу (ucurcu)
• Lithuanian: kosmonautas m, kosmonautė f
• Malay: kosmonaut
• Mongolian: сансрын нисэгч (sansryn nisegč)
• Navajo: wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí
• Persian: فضانورد (fa) (fazânavard)
• Polish: astronauta (pl) m, astronautka (pl) f, kosmonauta (pl) m, kosmonautka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cosmonauta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: cosmonaut (ro) m, cosmonaută (ro) f
• Russian: космона́вт (ru) m (kosmonávt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: космонаут m, астронаут m

  Roman: kosmonaut (sh) m, astronaut (sh) m

• Spanish: cosmonauta (es) m or f
• Swedish: kosmonaut (sv) c
• Tagalog: malimayaw
• Thai: นักบินอวกาศ (nák-bin-à-wá-gàat)
• Turkish: kozmonot (tr), astronot (tr), uçurcu, fezagir
• Ukrainian: космона́вт m (kosmonávt)
• Vietnamese: nhà du hành vũ trụ, phi hành gia
• Yiddish: קאָסמאָנויט m (kosmonoyt)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• космонаут (cosmonaut) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French cosmonaute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kos.mo.na.ˈut/

Noun

cosmonaut m (plural cosmonauți, feminine equivalent cosmonaută)

1. cosmonaut

   Synonym: astronaut

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cosmonaut	cosmonautul		cosmonauți	cosmonauții
genitive-dative	cosmonaut	cosmonautului		cosmonauți	cosmonauților
vocative	cosmonautule			cosmonauților

Further reading

• cosmonaut in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)