Martian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From Latin Mārtius (“of or relating to the planet Mars”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix). The word is cognate with Middle English marcien, marcyan, mercien (“subject to the influence or power of the planet Mars; relating to the god Mars, that is, warlike”), Middle French martien (“Martian”) (modern French martien), French Martien (“imaginary inhabitant of Mars; any extraterrestrial”), Italian marziano, Latin Mārtiānus (“Martian”), Portuguese marciano, Spanish marciano.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: martian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Martians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the planet Mars, or (science fiction) its imagined inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The direct heat of the sun, shining through so thin an atmosphere, must be considerable wherever the sun is at a sufficient elevation; and of course the very tenuity of the air renders vaporization so much the easier, for the boiling point (and consequently all temperatures of evaporation at given rates) would be correspondingly lowered. Accordingly, during the greater part of the Martian day, the hoar frost and whatever light snow might have fallen on the preceding evening would be completely dissolved away, and thus the ruddy earth or the greenish ice-masses of the so-called oceans would be revealed to the terrestral observer.
Prof. Percival Lowell, the eminent Martian astronomer, said in a recent interview in New York: "The Martian canals are not Panama canals. The word 'canals' you know, really means 'lines.' [...]"
Not wishing to lose this great opportunity of being the first to receive Martian signals, we 'phoned to the manager to come over immediately and verify our "startling" discovery. [...] A day later a lineman in the employ of a stock quotation ticker agency happened to be working on the roof. [...] [H]e suggested that we might possibly be troubled with induction from these wires, and that our lead-in would perhaps be better if it ran along the outside of the building. Troubled with induction! In truth, that was the very thing which we had mistaken for Martian signals.
She [Catherine Elise Muller] claimed her astral body was transported to the planet, so she was able to draw detailed Martian landscapes and to speak and write its language.
Martian meteorites (Fig. 1.3) are pieces of Mars that have been blasted off the surface, hurtled through space, and delivered to Earth [...]. We know they are from Mars because the noble gases, carbon, and nitrogen measured in shock melt pockets in certain meteorites have the same relative elemental abundances and similar isotopic ratios as the Martian atmosphere—a unique fingerprint [...].
Close to the border with Eritrea, its ethereal, Martian landscape sits within the Danakil Depression.
gloss: Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] [T]hey are easily angered, and, for the time being, forget everything in the excess of their violence. The worst Martian type will commit murder before he knows it.
gloss: Pertaining to battle or war; martial, military.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: The iudges vvhich thereto ſelected vvere, / Into the Martian field adovvne deſcended, / To deeme this doutfull caſe, for vvhich they all contended.
gloss: Pertaining to the Roman god Mars, the god of war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: Arean
gloss: A person under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] A male Martian is generally a great favorite with the ladies and is apt to be rather quick and unscrupulous in his courtship methods. He is not a sentimental lover. A bad Martian is a loud, fatiguing talker and a braggard.
gloss: An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
pos: noun
examples: Thus she [one of the moons of Mars] has a disc, always on this assumption be it remembered, equal to about a quarter of our moon's; and being illuminated by the sun, like the other moon, with a light varying from one-half to one-third that which he pours on the earth, it follows that the light she reflects to Martians, or would reflect to them if there were any such beings, varies from one-eighth to one-twelfth of that which we receive from the full moon.
Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, [...]
[...] M. le Coultre, the distinguished astronomer of Geneva, has once more declared that the Martians are trying to signal to us. [...] How long M. le Coultre's suggestion will stand before it goes the way of other similar conjectures now exploded, no one can say.
If the Martian understood and could analyze the character of men and women, he would find in shops, factories, mills, schools, offices, in business, in the professions and arts, multitudes of men and women in the unhappy position of the fish out of water. Floundering hopelessly in vocations for which they have no aptitude, unless some merciful wave carry them to their native element, the place for which nature especially equipped them, their lives will be wrecked.
Like a philosopher, or rather the hermit crab, he [Hoo Keng Tuck] lives in complete retirement, looking out occasionally from his coign of vantage upon his luckless compatriots who are struggling to make this world a better place to live in for themselves and their children, pretty much as a Martian might watch the social activities of the earth's inhabitants.
However, despite a declared interest in Mexico's Indian past, he feels that his country's uneducated and mostly Indian citizens are like creatures of another species. To then, "we are like Martians," Javier says, "We don't speak as they do or think as they do … If we do see them, it's like the zoo … We are their enemies and they know it" [...].
A Martian who landed in Britain in the past few weeks—assuming he managed to get a visa—would take it for a place that dislikes visitors. [...] And yet, if he lingered, the Martian might find himself being asked how health care was organised on his planet, or how its retailers were coping with the internet.
gloss: An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
pos: noun
tags: rare
specifically
examples: Coordinate term: Martianess
Derived words: circum-Martian
Martian blueberry
Martianism
Martianize
Martianness
Martian packet
Martian poetry
Martian spherule
trans-Martian
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مِرِّيخِيّ
roman: mirrīḵiyy
lang: Belarusian
word: марсія́нскі
roman: marsijánski
lang: Breton
word: meurzhek
lang: Catalan
word: marcià
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 火星的
lang: Cornish
word: meurthek
lang: Dutch
word: Mars-
lang: Dutch
word: van Mars
lang: Dutch
word: Martiaans
lang: Esperanto
word: marsa
lang: Finnish
word: marsilainen
lang: French
word: martien
lang: French
word: martienne
lang: Galician
word: marciano
lang: Galician
word: marciana
lang: German
word: marsianisch
lang: German
word: Mars-
lang: Greek
word: αρειανός
roman: areianós
lang: Greek
word: αρειανή
roman: areianí
lang: Greek
word: αρειανό
roman: areianó
lang: Hebrew
word: מאדימי
roman: ma'adimí
lang: Hungarian
word: marsi
lang: Hungarian
word: marsbéli
lang: Hungarian
word: marslakó
lang: Hungarian
word: Mars-lakó
lang: Irish
word: Marsa
lang: Irish
word: Marsach
lang: Italian
word: marziano
lang: Italian
word: marziana
lang: Japanese
word: 火星の…
roman: kasei no
lang: Kazakh
word: марстағы
roman: marstağy
lang: Korean
word: 화성의⋯
lang: Latin
word: Mārtiānus
lang: Latin
word: Mārtiāna
lang: Latin
word: Mārtiānum
lang: Macedonian
word: марсовски
roman: marsovski
lang: Middle English
word: marcyan
lang: Occitan
word: marsian
lang: Persian
word: مریخی
roman: merixi
lang: Persian
word: بهرامی
roman: bahrâmi
lang: Polish
word: marsjański
lang: Portuguese
word: marciano
lang: Romanian
word: marțian
lang: Russian
word: марсиа́нский
roman: marsiánskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȁrsovskī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ма̏рсовскӣ
lang: Spanish
word: marciano
lang: Swedish
word: marsiansk
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсія́нський
roman: marsijánsʹkyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсіа́нський
roman: marsiánsʹkyj
lang: Urdu
word: مِرِّیخی
roman: mirrīxī
lang: Welsh
word: Mawrthaidd
lang: Arabic
word: مَرِيخِيّ
roman: marīḵiyy
lang: Belarusian
word: марсія́нін
roman: marsijánin
lang: Belarusian
word: марсія́нка
roman: marsijánka
lang: Breton
word: Meurzhiad
lang: Bulgarian
word: марсианец
roman: marsianec
lang: Catalan
word: marciana
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 火星人
roman: huǒxīngrén
lang: Czech
word: Marťan
lang: Danish
word: marsbo
lang: Danish
word: marsboer
lang: Danish
word: marsmand
lang: Dutch
word: marsmannetje
lang: Esperanto
word: marsano
lang: Esperanto
word: marsanino
lang: French
word: Martien
lang: French
word: Martienne
lang: German
word: Marsianer
lang: German
word: Marsianerin
lang: German
word: Marsbewohner
lang: German
word: Marsbewohnerin
lang: German
word: Marsmensch
lang: Greek
word: Αρειανός
roman: Areianós
lang: Greek
word: Αρειανή
roman: Areianí
lang: Icelandic
word: marsbúi
lang: Japanese
word: 火星人
roman: Kasei-jin
lang: Korean
word: 화성인
roman: hwaseong'in
lang: Lithuanian
word: marsiẽtis
lang: Lithuanian
word: marsiẽtė
lang: Macedonian
word: Марсовец
roman: Marsovec
lang: Macedonian
word: Марсовка
roman: Marsovka
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: marsboer
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: marsbuer
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: marsbuar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: Mars-buar
lang: Polish
word: Marsjanin
lang: Polish
word: Marsjanka
lang: Portuguese
word: marciana
lang: Romansh
word: Marsian
lang: Russian
word: марсиа́нин
roman: marsiánin
lang: Russian
word: марсиа́нка
roman: marsiánka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Марсовац
roman: Marsovac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Марсовка
roman: Marsovka
lang: Slovak
word: marťan
lang: Slovak
word: marťanka
lang: Spanish
word: marciana
lang: Swedish
word: marsian
lang: Swedish
word: marsmänniska
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсія́нин
roman: marsijányn
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсія́нка
roman: marsijánka
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсіа́нин
roman: marsiányn
lang: Ukrainian
word: марсіа́нка
roman: marsiánka
lang: Welsh
word: Mawrthiad