Etymograph

English

siriometer

From Sirius + -o- + meter.

Formed from Sirius + -o- + meter

Proto-Indo-European *twéys-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *tséihō

Ancient Greek σείω ‘to shake’

Ancient Greek Σείριος

Latin Sīrius

English Sirius

Middle English metere ‘one who measures, measurer’

English meter

The story

It is roughly twice the distance from Earth to the star Sirius.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Today it means

noun A unit of distance equal to one million astronomical units or 15.813 light-years.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “siriometer”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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