Martian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to the planet Mars or its actual or imagined inhabitants

   The rover transmitted new images of the Martian surface.

2. 2
   noun

   an actual, hypothetical, or fictional inhabitant of Mars

   The novel's narrator mistakes the silent Martian for a statue.

From Mars, the name of the Roman god of war and of the planet, through Latin Martius ("of Mars"), plus the English adjective and demonym suffix -an. The adjective is recorded in the nineteenth century, and the noun soon followed for an imagined inhabitant of the planet.

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