The story
- Latin · derived fromlacerta“a lizard”
- English todayLacerta
Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. From Latin lacerta (“a lizard”)
Words from the same roots
Latinlacerta all →
lacertian
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lacerta
Today it means: An inconspicuous autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lizard. It lies between the constellations of Cygnus and Andromeda. Full definition →
Latin lacerta