Ursa Major

Borrowed from Latin ursa maior (“greater bear”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɝsə ˈmeɪdʒɚ/

Ursa Major

1. (astronomy) A large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Big Dipper and the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major.

• Ursae Majoris

• UMa

• Big Dipper
• Charles' Wain
• Great Bear
• Ursa Minor