Editing Sirius (section)

== Etymology ==
The proper name "Sirius" comes from the Latin ''Sīrius'', from the [[Ancient Greek]] {{mvar|Σείριος}} (''Seirios'', "glowing" or "scorcher").<ref name="Liddell1980"/> The Greek word itself may have been imported from elsewhere before the [[Archaic Greece|Archaic period]],<ref name="Holberg2007-15-16"/> one authority suggesting a link with the Egyptian god [[Osiris]].<ref name="Brosch2008-21"/> The name's earliest recorded use dates from the 7th&nbsp;century BC in [[Hesiod]]'s poetic work ''[[Works and Days]]''.<ref name="Holberg2007-15-16"/> In 2016, the [[International Astronomical Union]] organized a [[Working Group on Star Names]] (WGSN)<ref name="WGSN">{{cite web | title=IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) | url=https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/working_groups/280/ |access-date=22 May 2016}}</ref> to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July&nbsp;2016<ref name="WGSN1">{{cite web | title=Bulletin of the IAU Working Group on Star Names | id=No.&nbsp;1 | url=http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/WGSN/WGSN_bulletin1.pdf |access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref> included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN, which included ''Sirius'' for the star α&nbsp;Canis Majoris&nbsp;A. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names.<ref name="IAU-CSN">{{cite web |title=IAU Catalog of Star Names |format=plain text |url=http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/WGSN/IAU-CSN.txt |access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref>

Sirius has over 50&nbsp;other designations and names attached to it.<ref name="Holberg2007-xi"/> In [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s essay ''[[Treatise on the Astrolabe]]'', it bears the name ''Alhabor'' and is depicted by a hound's head. This name is widely used on medieval [[astrolabe]]s from Western Europe.<ref name=gingerich>{{cite journal | last1 = Gingerich | first1 = O. | year = 1987 | title = Zoomorphic astrolabes and the introduction of Arabic star names into Europe | journal = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | volume = 500 | issue = 1 | pages = 89–104 | doi = 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb37197.x |bibcode = 1987NYASA.500...89G | s2cid = 84102853}}</ref> In [[Sanskrit]] it is known as ''Mrgavyadha'' "deer hunter", or ''Lubdhaka'' "hunter". As Mrgavyadha, the star represents [[Rudra]] ([[Shiva]]).<ref name="Kak" /><ref name="Magee1995" /> The star is referred to as ''Makarajyoti'' in [[Malayalam]] and has religious significance to the pilgrim center [[Sabarimala]].<ref name="Makarajyothi2011" /> In [[Scandinavia]], the star has been known as ''Lokabrenna'' ("burning done by Loki", or "Loki's torch").<ref name=rydberg1889/> In the [[astrology]] of the [[Middle Ages]], Sirius was a [[Behenian fixed star]],<ref name="Tyson1993"/> associated with [[beryl]] and [[juniper]]. Its astrological symbol [[File:Sirius - Agrippa.png]] was listed by [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]].<ref name="Agrippa1533"/>