Latin

Noun

Tellūs f ‎(genitive Tellūris); third declension

1. Earth
2. An ancient goddess of the Earth

Declension

Third declension.

Latin

Noun

tellūs f ‎(genitive tellūris); third declension

1. earth, ground
2. the Earth, globe
3. land, country

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• terra

Derived terms

• pede tellūrem pulsō
• tellūster
• tellurium

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tellus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• tellus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• 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 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill