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Tellus

name

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”).

  1. derived from 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓 — “earth”
  2. derived from *telnos ~ *telnes-✻
  3. derived from *telnos✻
  4. borrowed from tellus — “Earth, globe, world”

Definitions

  1. The goddess of the Earth in Roman mythology.

    • Perhaps the Custome of the Beggars, throwing the remainder of drinke out of the Dish on the Ground, may be derived from an Ethnick sacrifice to Tellus.

  2. The planet Earth.

The neighborhood

Derived

Tellurian

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Tellus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA