Canis major was named by the africans.
great dog
great dog
Not precisely.Canis major translated from Latin to English is "the great dog".Canis majoris translated from Latin to English is "of the great dog", or "the great dog's".("Great" in both of those is meant in the sense of "big, large", not in the sense of "wow, what a fantastic dog.")
Canis Major
The Great Dog.
Canis Major.
"Great dog" and "Lesser dog". Except in Latin, so it's Canis Major and Canis Minor.
Yes Sirius is in Canis Major or Big Dog!! :-)
because of the dog it was named after.
'Canis Major' is latin for 'great dog' - the ancients believed that by joining the stars within canis major in a sort of celestial dot-to-dot you would see the shape of a large dog in the sky, so they named it thus.
The Greeks thought the constellation Canis Major looked like a big dog so that's what they named it (Canis Major is Greek for "Big Dog.").