supernova
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsuː.pə(ɹ)ˈnəʊ.və/
Audio (General American): (file) 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.
- 2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 24 September 2024:
- In these stellar pairings, if the two stars are close together, the white dwarf will siphon mass away from its companion and have an outburst called a nova. And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova. […] “In this kind of supernova, the white dwarf is completely destroyed, so its companion is released and flies off at whatever orbital speed it was originally moving, plus a little bit of a kick from the supernova explosion as well,” Burgasser said.
- (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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Further reading
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)
Further reading
- supernova on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsuperˌnoʋɑ/, [ˈs̠upe̞rˌno̞ʋɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -oʋɑ
- Syllabification(key): su‧per‧no‧va
- Hyphenation(key): super‧nova
Noun
supernova
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 supernovain rare | |
| 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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Derived terms
compounds
References
- “supernova”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Further reading
- supernova on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.pɛʁ.nɔ.va/
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Noun
supernova f (plural supernovas or supernovae or supernovæ)
Derived terms
References
- “supernova”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Further reading
- supernova on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Galician
Noun
supernova f (plural supernovas)
Further reading
- supernova on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.perˈnɔ.va/
- Rhymes: -ɔva
- Hyphenation: su‧per‧nò‧va
Noun
supernova f (plural supernove)
Related terms
Further reading
- supernova on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English supernova. By surface analysis, super- + nova (“nova”).
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
Noun
supernova f (plural supernovas)
Further reading
- supernova on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- “supernova”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “supernova”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supernôːʋa/
Noun
supernȏva f (Cyrillic spelling суперно̑ва)
Further reading
- supernova on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia sh
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supeɾˈnoba/ [su.peɾˈno.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -oba
- Syllabification: su‧per‧no‧va
Noun
supernova f (plural supernovas)
References
- “supernova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Further reading
- “supernova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- supernova on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es