supernova
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsuː.pə(ɹ)ˈnəʊ.və/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊvə
- Hyphenation: su‧per‧no‧va
Noun
supernova (plural supernovae or supernovæ or supernovas)
- (astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
- (figurative) Something brilliant.
- 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 59:
- Cornelius was the only one dressed in muscle but collectively they were a bully supernova.
Synonyms
- SN (abbreviation)
Hyponyms
- (astronomy): fast-evolving luminous transient
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
exploding star
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See also
Dutch
Etymology
Probably borrowed from English supernova or German Supernova. Equivalent to super- + nova.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsy.pərˈnoː.vaː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: su‧per‧no‧va
- Rhymes: -oːvaː
Noun
supernova f (plural supernovae or supernova's, diminutive supernovaatje n)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsuperˌnoʋɑ/, [ˈs̠upe̞rˌno̞ʋɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -oʋɑ
- Syllabification(key): su‧per‧no‧va
Declension
| Inflection of supernova (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | supernova | supernovat | ||
| genitive | supernovan | supernovien | ||
| partitive | supernovaa | supernovia | ||
| illative | supernovaan | supernoviin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | supernova | supernovat | ||
| accusative | nom. | supernova | supernovat | |
| gen. | supernovan | |||
| genitive | supernovan | supernovien supernovainrare | ||
| partitive | supernovaa | supernovia | ||
| inessive | supernovassa | supernovissa | ||
| elative | supernovasta | supernovista | ||
| illative | supernovaan | supernoviin | ||
| adessive | supernovalla | supernovilla | ||
| ablative | supernovalta | supernovilta | ||
| allative | supernovalle | supernoville | ||
| essive | supernovana | supernovina | ||
| translative | supernovaksi | supernoviksi | ||
| abessive | supernovatta | supernovitta | ||
| instructive | — | supernovin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
- “supernova”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.pɛʁ.nɔ.va/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “supernova”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.perˈnɔ.va/
- Rhymes: -ɔva
- Hyphenation: su‧per‧nò‧va
Related terms
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌsu.peɾˈnɔ.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌsu.peɾˈnɔ.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsu.pɛɾˈnɔ.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsu.pɛɾˈnɔ.bɐ/ [ˌsu.pɛɾˈnɔ.βɐ]
- Hyphenation: su‧per‧no‧va
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supernôːʋa/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supeɾˈnoba/ [su.peɾˈno.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -oba
- Syllabification: su‧per‧no‧va
Further reading
- “supernova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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