tellus
See also: Tellus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom 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”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtel.luːs/, [ˈt̪ɛlːʲuːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtel.lus/, [ˈt̪ɛlːus]
Noun
edittellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension
- earth, ground, soil
- Earth, globe, world
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]- No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; […]
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
- country, district, region, land
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tellūs | tellūrēs |
Genitive | tellūris | tellūrum |
Dative | tellūrī | tellūribus |
Accusative | tellūrem | tellūrēs |
Ablative | tellūre | tellūribus |
Vocative | tellūs | tellūrēs |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “tellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tellus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “tellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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