Boötes

• Bootes

From Latin Boōtēs, the constellation, from Ancient Greek Βοώτης (Boṓtēs).

• enPR: bō-ōʹtēz, IPA^(key): /boʊˈoʊtiːz/

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Boötes

1. (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, called the “bear-guard” or the “herdsman”. It includes the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, Arcturus.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
     As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
     Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 14:

     These fringes of lamplight, struggling up through smoke and thousandfold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Boötes of them, as he leads his Hunting-Dogs over the Zenith in their leash of sidereal fire?

• Boötid
• Boötis

• besoot

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Boötes m

1. (astronomy) Boötes

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