proper noun
Rotanev
Rotanev ? sg (indeclinable)
Meaning
- indeclinablesingularThe star β Delphini in the constellation Delphinus.
ROTANEV
1814, Giuseppe Piazzi, editor, Praecipuarum stellarum inerrantium positiones mediae ineunte saeculo XIX, page 147:
Origins
Named after Sicilian astronomer Nicolaus Venator (1770–1841), by reversing the letters in the Latinized form of his last name.