celestial

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛs.ti.əl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛs.t͡ʃəl/
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• General-American: /səˈlɛs.t͡ʃ(ə)l/
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• General-American: /səˈlɛs.ti.əl/
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• rhymes with -ɛstiəl
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• rhymes with -ɛstʃəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH0 L EH1 S CH AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh2i-lom Proto-Italic *kailom? Latin caelum Latin terrestris Latin -estris Latin caelestis Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin caelestiālislbor. Old French celestialbor. Middle English celestial English celestial The adjective is derived from Late Middle English celestial (“relating to the heavens or sky; (Christianity) relating to heaven, divine, heavenly”), borrowed from Old French celestial (modern French céleste), from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), or directly from its etymon Latin caelestis (“of or in the heavens, heavenly; (figurative) of the gods, divine; etc.”), from caelum (“heaven; sky”) (ultimate etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kéh2ilom (“whole”)) + -estris (suffix meaning ‘dwelling or located in’ forming adjectives from nouns). The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective. Adjective sense 2.2 (“of or relating to China”) and noun sense 3 (“native of China”) refer to Celestial Empire (a calque of Mandarin 天朝 (Tiāncháo, “(literary) the Chinese Empire, China”), from 天 (tiān, “heaven; sky”) + 朝 (cháo, “dynasty; emperor’s reign; imperial court; etc.”)), a dated name for China when it was subject to imperial rule.

After the name Celestial City.

From the Celestial Empire, a colloquialism for the Chinese Empire / Empire of China / Imperial China.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: qiellor — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Arabic: سَمَاوِيّ (samāwiyy) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Armenian: երկնային (erknayin) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Belarusian: нябе́сны (njabjésny) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Bulgarian: небе́сен (nebésen) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Catalan: celeste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Chinese Mandarin: 天的 (tiān de) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Chinese Mandarin: 天空的 (tiānkōng de) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Czech: nebeský — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Dutch: hemels — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Esperanto: ĉiela — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Finnish: taivas- — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• French: céleste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Georgian: ციური (ciuri) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• German: Himmels- — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Greek: ουράνιος (ouránios) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Gujarati: આકાશીય (ākāśīya) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hebrew: שְׁמֵימִי (shmemí) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hebrew: שמימית (shmemít) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hindi: आकाशीय (ākāśīya) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hindi: आसमानी (āsmānī) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hindi: अलौकिक (alaukik) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Hungarian: égi — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Ido: cielala — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Irish: spéartha — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Istriot: cialieste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Italian: celeste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Japanese: 空の (sora no) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Japanese: 天空の (tenkū no) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Korean: 하늘의 (haneur-ui) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Central Kurdish: ئاسمانی (asmanî) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Latin: caelestis — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Malay: langit — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Malay: samawi — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Maltese: ċelestjali — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Navajo: yáʼąąsh — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Iranian Persian: آسْمانی (âsmâni) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Iranian Persian: سَماوی (samâvi) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Polish: niebiański — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Portuguese: celeste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Punjabi: ਅਸਮਾਨੀ (asamānī) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Romanian: ceresc — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Russian: небе́сный (nebésnyj) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Serbo-Croatian: небѐскӣ — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Serbo-Croatian: nebèskī — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Slovak: nebeský — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Slovene: nebesen — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Spanish: celestial — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Spanish: celeste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Sranan Tongo: heimel — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Swedish: himmelsk — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Tajik: осмонӣ (osmoni) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Turkish: semavi — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Ukrainian: небе́сний (nebésnyj) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Urdu: آسْمانی (āsmānī) — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Venetan: celeste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Venetan: zheleste — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Welsh: wybrennol — of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space
• Belarusian: сла́ўны (sláwny) — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Bulgarian: сла́вен (sláven) — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Finnish: selestinen — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Finnish: taivaallinen — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Russian: сла́вный (slávnyj) — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Swedish: himmelsk — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Ukrainian: сла́вний (slávnyj) — (Mormonism) of or relating to the celestial kingdom, the highest degree of glory
• Finnish: taivaan asukas — inhabitant of heaven
• Finnish: taivaallinen asia — thing from heaven
• Finnish: taivaallinen — person who is extremely beautiful, of high status, or intelligent, etc.
• Dutch: hemelrijker — Chinese person