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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud
originNamed by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Italian dorato (“gilded, golden”), ultimately from Latin deaurātus, the past participle of deaurō (“to gild”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0