insanecarbonbasedlif's Journal: Solar adjectives

The adjective form of Jupiter is Jovian. Does Saturn have an adjective form?

Is it safe to use the pattern that arises from the planets I know for the ones I don't? That would be:

• Mercury - Mercurial
• Venus - Venusian
• Terra - Terran
• Mars - Martian
• Jupiter - Jovian
• Saturn - Saturnian?
• Uranus - Uranian?
• Neptune - Neptunian?

Moo

[Chacham]

Write a book on it, and claim prior art or something. :P

Yes it does, and you got it wrong.

[Scott Lockwood]

Does Saturn have an adjective form?

Yes, it does. The correct answer is Saturnine.

Yes it does, and he got it right.

[johndiii]

Unless one is talking about astrology: Saturnian [yourdictionary.com].

As opposed to saturnine [yourdictionary.com].

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[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Ah, so the naming schema *is* consistent enough for interpolation! Thanks for the links.

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[Scott Lockwood]

Saturnian is like Normalcy. It's not really a word.

Find it for me in O.E.D. or I call shenanigans.

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[loucura!]

Oxford English Dictionary attests 'normalcy' back to 1857.

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[Scott Lockwood]

Seriously? Huh.

Does your copy list Saturnian?

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[insanecarbonbasedlif]

I just found this fact sheet about Saturn's moons from NASA labelled the Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet [nasa.gov]. That's clinched it for me, as I'm considering NASA a reasonable authority for solar nomenclature.

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[Scott Lockwood]

Ah, but solar nomenclature would by definition be scientific nomenclature. Scientific nomenclature != English, at least not always. There are plenty of technical terms from the various sciences that are not in the O.E.D.

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[insanecarbonbasedlif]

That was my first thought, but the definition [wiktionary.org] fails to reference the "of or relating to ..." that I see for the other planetary terms [wiktionary.org] (ex 2 [wiktionary.org], ex 3 [wiktionary.org], etc... [wiktionary.org]).