English Explanatory Dictionary

Tellus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The goddess of the Earth in Roman mythology.
  2. The planet Earth.

Word forms

Tellus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tellus (“Earth, globe, world”), from Proto-Italic *telnos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *telnos ~ *telnes-, from *telh₂- (“flat ground”), but reshaped after rūs. Otherwise, could derive from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓 (tular, “earth”).

Synonyms

Terra Sol III

Related words

tellurian telluric tellurium

Derived words

Tellurian
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