Pluto
<p><img src="/36a178c4-8aa1-5a99-a9ca-896d15bebc63.png"/>Pluto</p>
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<b>Pluto</b></p>
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<li >(<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Greek" title="Greek" >Greek</a> <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythology" title="mythology" >mythology</a>, <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Roman" title="Roman" >Roman</a> <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythology" title="mythology" >mythology</a>) Greek and Roman <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/god" title="god" >god</a> of the <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/underworld" title="underworld" >underworld</a>.</li>
<li >(<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astronomy" title="astronomy" >astronomy</a>) Originally known as the ninth <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planet" title="planet" >planet</a> but reclassified in 2006 as a <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dwarf_planet" title="dwarf planet" >dwarf planet</a>, the brightest and first known <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt_object" title="Kuiper belt object" >Kuiper belt object</a>, represented by the symbol <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%99%87" title="♇" >♇</a> in <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astronomy" title="astronomy" >astronomy</a> and <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Pluto%27s_astrological_symbol.svg" class="image" ><img src="/503b95f7-8b8b-5159-8886-8cff6363d0cd.png"/></a> in <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astrology" title="astrology" >astrology</a>.</li>
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<p><i >Pluto</i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive" title="Genitive" class="mw-redirect" >genitive</a> <i >Plutonis</i>) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization" >Latinized</a> form of the Greek <i >Plouton</i>. Pluto's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca" >Roman equivalent</a> is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_Pater" title="Dis Pater" >Dis Pater</a>, whose name is most often taken to mean "Rich Father." Pluto was also identified with the obscure Roman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus" title="Orcus" >Orcus</a>, like Hades the name of both a god of the underworld and the underworld as a place. The borrowed Greek name <i >Pluto</i> is sometimes used for the ruler of the dead in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature" >Latin literature</a>, leading some mythology handbooks to assert misleadingly that Pluto was the Roman counterpart of Hades.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)#cite_note-3" >[4]</a></sup> <i >Pluto</i> (French <i >Pluton</i> and Italian <i >Plutone</i>) becomes the most common name for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_tradition" title="Classical tradition" >classical</a> ruler of the underworld in subsequent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture" title="Western culture" >Western literature and other art forms</a>.</p>