tellurion
nounEtymology
From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ion (a Latinate suffix used in place of -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’)), possibly coined by Benjamin Martin (baptized 1705; died 1782), an English lecturer, lexicographer, and maker of scientific instruments: see the quotation.
Definitions
An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around…
An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tellurion. 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