Boötes

[ boh-oh-teez ]

noun

, Astronomy.

, genitive Bo·ö·tis [boh-, oh, -tis].

1. the Herdsman, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Serpens, containing the bright star Arcturus.

Boötes

/ bəʊˈəʊtiːz /

noun

1. a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus

Boötes

/ bō-ō′tēz /

1. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Virgo and Corona Borealis. It contains the bright star Arcturus. Boötes (the Plowman or Herdsman) is one of the earliest recorded constellations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Boötes¹

1650–60; < Latin < Greek Boṓtēs literally, ox-driver

Word History and Origins

Origin of Boötes¹

C17: via Latin from Greek: ploughman, from boōtein to plough, from bous ox

Example Sentences

A merchant with a forked beard, "a Flandrish beaver hat, and bootes clasped fair and fetisly."

From Project Gutenberg

Your lordshipp is learned as well as I (it is bootles & I should offer you the bootes), you knowing the Latine to expounde.

From Project Gutenberg

Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.

From Project Gutenberg

But neither the virgin of Tegea, nor the sword-bearing Orion, 906 the companion of Bootes, will have to be beheld by thee.

From Project Gutenberg

Whereupon ye soul of ye humiliated Rag sinketh into hys bootes, and he retireth for ever under a perpetual extinguisher.

From Project Gutenberg