The name Uranus pronounced OOR-ahn-oos before the English mangled it for the amusement of school children is a Romanization of Greek Ouranos OOR-ahn-oas which is conventionally derived from an Indo-European root ṷérs- to rain.

Roman name for uranus. Most are named after characters in Roman or Greek mythologybut there are a lot of exceptions The moons of Uranus for example are named for the most part after characters in Shakespeares The. Uranus more commonly spelled Ouranos was a Greek god not a Roman one as the deities that gave their names to the other planets. Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens the earliest supreme god.

The Roman name for Uranus is Uranus. Uranus Roman Counterpart was Caelus When the Roman Empire conquered the Greeks in 146BC the Romans assimilated various elements from other cultures and civilisations including the gods. Astronomer William Herschel who is credited with discovering Uranus in 1781 wanted to call it Georgium Sidus Georges Star for the British ruler at the time King George III.

Astronomers decided to continue naming the planets after Roman Gods with one exception - Uranus. According to myth he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. He discovered it in 1781 and the name was universally accepted by 1850.

It is named Uranus for the Roman god of the sky I assume because of its sky-blue hue. The Romans named the five planets closest to the Sun after their most important gods. Picture of Uranus Ouranos castrated by his son Cronus.

These were the only planets that were bright enough for them to see. The persona of the sky Ouranos was the father of the Titans and the giants castrated by his sons as payback for imprisoning their brothers inside Gaia their mother. From this we get the name of a modern planet.

The name Uranus was first proposed by German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in order for it to be in conformity with the other planetary names - which are from classical mythology. Astronomy is very old science - with at. Named by William Herschel.