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Noun [Latin]

IPA: [ˈtɛl.luːs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈtɛl.lus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Uncertain, but the most likely cognates include Old Irish talam (“earth”) (reflecting Proto-Celtic *talamū, perhaps earlier *telamū), Lithuanian tilės (“flooring, bottom of a barge”), pã-talas (“bed”), Old Prussian talus (“floor”), Old Church Slavonic тъла pl (tŭla, “foundation, bottom”), Proto-Germanic *þelą (“floor; floorboard, type of plank”), and Sanskrit तल (tala, “surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor”). All are possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, floor”), a special use of the verbal root *telh₂- (“to bear, carry, lift, support”). The term is unique in Latin in being the only polysyllabic s-stem with a long ū-vowel in the suffix. Also of interest is the ablaut between e in tellūs and *o in medi-tullium (“inner land”). De Vaan suggests, among other possibilities, that the term may derive from an original *-u-stem (but with o-grade ablaut somewhere in the paradigm, which is not usually reconstructed for this type) that was later extended with an s-suffix. He posits a Proto-Italic pre-form *teln- containing a suffixal element *-n-, but for formal reasons the affixation must post-date the loss of the PIE laryngeal in *telh₂-; it may have arisen by analogy with tollō (“to lift”) (Proto-Italic *tolnō). Compare the on-stem of Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck”) and the mon-stem of both Celtic and Ancient Greek τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap”, literally “that which supports”). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:der<unc:1>|ine-pro:*telh₂-<id:ground>}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "ground", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*telh₂-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "tellus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="tellus">, {{unc|la}} Uncertain, {{cog|sga|talam||earth}} Old Irish talam (“earth”), {{cog|cel-pro|*talamū}} Proto-Celtic *talamū, {{cog|lt|tilės||flooring, bottom of a barge}} Lithuanian tilės (“flooring, bottom of a barge”), {{cog|prg|talus||floor}} Old Prussian talus (“floor”), {{cog|cu|тъла||foundation, bottom|g=p}} Old Church Slavonic тъла pl (tŭla, “foundation, bottom”), {{cog|gem-pro|*þelą||floor; floorboard, type of plank}} Proto-Germanic *þelą (“floor; floorboard, type of plank”), {{,}} ,, {{cog|sa|तल|t=surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor}} Sanskrit तल (tala, “surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor”), {{der|la|ine-pro|*telh₂-|id=ground|t=ground, floor}} Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, floor”), {{cog|itc-sbl|-}} Osco-Umbrian, {{der|la|itc-pro|-}} Proto-Italic, {{m+|itc-pro|*tolnō}} Proto-Italic *tolnō, {{m+|gem-pro|*þiljǭ||board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck}} Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck”), {{cog|grc|τελαμών||strap|lit=that which supports}} Ancient Greek τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap”, literally “that which supports”) Head templates: {{la-noun|tellūs/tellūr<3>|g=f}} tellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|tellūs/tellūr<3>}} Forms: tellūs [canonical, feminine], tellūris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], tellūs [nominative, singular], tellūrēs [nominative, plural], tellūris [genitive, singular], tellūrum [genitive, plural], tellūrī [dative, singular], tellūribus [dative, plural], tellūrem [accusative, singular], tellūrēs [accusative, plural], tellūre [ablative, singular], tellūribus [ablative, plural], tellūs [singular, vocative], tellūrēs [plural, vocative]
  1. earth, ground, soil Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: terra, solum, humus
    Sense id: en-tellus-la-noun-q5rXt7dM Categories (other): Latin entries with etymon, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymon: 76 11 13 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 75 5 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 62 9 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 4 10 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 78 5 17
  2. Earth, globe, world Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-tellus-la-noun-qG8LbzxE
  3. country, district, region, land Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-tellus-la-noun-U2Qu8DPl Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 31 27 42
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meditullium, pede tellūrem pulsō, tellūrium, tellūster
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "meditullium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "pede tellūrem pulsō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tellūrium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tellūster"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "learned borrowing",
        "learned"
      ],
      "word": "tellure"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "tellure"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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    },
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    },
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        "3": "",
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      "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic тъла pl (tŭla, “foundation, bottom”)",
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    },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": ",",
      "name": ","
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "तल",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*telh₂-",
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-sbl",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Osco-Umbrian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*tolnō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *tolnō",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*þiljǭ",
        "3": "",
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      },
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      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "τελαμών",
        "3": "",
        "4": "strap",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain, but the most likely cognates include Old Irish talam (“earth”) (reflecting Proto-Celtic *talamū, perhaps earlier *telamū), Lithuanian tilės (“flooring, bottom of a barge”), pã-talas (“bed”), Old Prussian talus (“floor”), Old Church Slavonic тъла pl (tŭla, “foundation, bottom”), Proto-Germanic *þelą (“floor; floorboard, type of plank”), and Sanskrit तल (tala, “surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor”). All are possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, floor”), a special use of the verbal root *telh₂- (“to bear, carry, lift, support”).\nThe term is unique in Latin in being the only polysyllabic s-stem with a long ū-vowel in the suffix. Also of interest is the ablaut between e in tellūs and *o in medi-tullium (“inner land”). De Vaan suggests, among other possibilities, that the term may derive from an original *-u-stem (but with o-grade ablaut somewhere in the paradigm, which is not usually reconstructed for this type) that was later extended with an s-suffix. He posits a Proto-Italic pre-form *teln- containing a suffixal element *-n-, but for formal reasons the affixation must post-date the loss of the PIE laryngeal in *telh₂-; it may have arisen by analogy with tollō (“to lift”) (Proto-Italic *tolnō). Compare the on-stem of Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck”) and the mon-stem of both Celtic and Ancient Greek τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap”, literally “that which supports”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūris",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūris",
          "telluris"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūs",
          "tellus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūris",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūris",
          "telluris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrum",
          "tellurum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrī",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrī",
          "telluri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūribus",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūribus",
          "telluribus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrem",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrem",
          "tellurem#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūre",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūre",
          "tellure#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūribus",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūribus",
          "telluribus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūs",
          "tellus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tellūs/tellūr<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "tellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tellūs/tellūr<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "76 11 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 5 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 9 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 4 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 5 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "earth, ground, soil"
      ],
      "id": "en-tellus-la-noun-q5rXt7dM",
      "links": [
        [
          "earth",
          "earth"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "soil",
          "soil"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "terra"
        },
        {
          "word": "solum"
        },
        {
          "word": "humus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The ancient world did not have skilled farmers.\n(Other possible translations include “soil” or “country”.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.515",
          "text": "nōn habuit doctōs tellūs antīqua colōnōs",
          "translation": "The ancient world did not have skilled farmers.\n(Other possible translations include “soil” or “country”.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "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; […]",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.10–14",
          "text": "Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,\nnec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,\nnec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs\nponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō\nmargine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]",
          "translation": "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; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Earth, globe, world"
      ],
      "id": "en-tellus-la-noun-qG8LbzxE",
      "links": [
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "globe",
          "globe"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 27 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Almost beyond sight of the land of Sicily, upon the deep [sea]\nOr: On the deep [sea], [with] Sicilian land [being] scarcely out of sight",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.34",
          "text": "Vix ē cōnspectū Siculae tellūris in altum",
          "translation": "Almost beyond sight of the land of Sicily, upon the deep [sea]\nOr: On the deep [sea], [with] Sicilian land [being] scarcely out of sight",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "country, district, region, land"
      ],
      "id": "en-tellus-la-noun-U2Qu8DPl",
      "links": [
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "region",
          "region"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtɛl.luːs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtɛl.lus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tellus"
}
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    "Latin entries with etymon",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *telh₂- (ground)",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymon"
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    {
      "word": "meditullium"
    },
    {
      "word": "pede tellūrem pulsō"
    },
    {
      "word": "tellūrium"
    },
    {
      "word": "tellūster"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "learned borrowing",
        "learned"
      ],
      "word": "tellure"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
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        "borrowed"
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      "word": "tellure"
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        "3": "ine-pro:*telh₂-<id:ground>"
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      "name": "ety"
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      "args": {
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      "name": "cog"
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      "name": "cog"
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    {
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        "2": "*þelą",
        "3": "",
        "4": "floor; floorboard, type of plank"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þelą (“floor; floorboard, type of plank”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": ",",
      "name": ","
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "तल",
        "t": "surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit तल (tala, “surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*telh₂-",
        "id": "ground",
        "t": "ground, floor"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, floor”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-sbl",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Osco-Umbrian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*tolnō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *tolnō",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*þiljǭ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck”)",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "τελαμών",
        "3": "",
        "4": "strap",
        "lit": "that which supports"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap”, literally “that which supports”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain, but the most likely cognates include Old Irish talam (“earth”) (reflecting Proto-Celtic *talamū, perhaps earlier *telamū), Lithuanian tilės (“flooring, bottom of a barge”), pã-talas (“bed”), Old Prussian talus (“floor”), Old Church Slavonic тъла pl (tŭla, “foundation, bottom”), Proto-Germanic *þelą (“floor; floorboard, type of plank”), and Sanskrit तल (tala, “surface, palm/sole, bottom, floor”). All are possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, floor”), a special use of the verbal root *telh₂- (“to bear, carry, lift, support”).\nThe term is unique in Latin in being the only polysyllabic s-stem with a long ū-vowel in the suffix. Also of interest is the ablaut between e in tellūs and *o in medi-tullium (“inner land”). De Vaan suggests, among other possibilities, that the term may derive from an original *-u-stem (but with o-grade ablaut somewhere in the paradigm, which is not usually reconstructed for this type) that was later extended with an s-suffix. He posits a Proto-Italic pre-form *teln- containing a suffixal element *-n-, but for formal reasons the affixation must post-date the loss of the PIE laryngeal in *telh₂-; it may have arisen by analogy with tollō (“to lift”) (Proto-Italic *tolnō). Compare the on-stem of Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board, plank, floorboard; flooring, deck”) and the mon-stem of both Celtic and Ancient Greek τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap”, literally “that which supports”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūris",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūris",
          "telluris"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūs",
          "tellus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūris",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūris",
          "telluris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrum",
          "tellurum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrī",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrī",
          "telluri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūribus",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūribus",
          "telluribus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrem",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrem",
          "tellurem#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūre",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūre",
          "tellure#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūribus",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūribus",
          "telluribus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūs",
          "tellus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellūrēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "tellūrēs",
          "tellures#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tellūs/tellūr<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "tellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tellūs/tellūr<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "earth, ground, soil"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "earth",
          "earth"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "soil",
          "soil"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "terra"
        },
        {
          "word": "solum"
        },
        {
          "word": "humus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The ancient world did not have skilled farmers.\n(Other possible translations include “soil” or “country”.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.515",
          "text": "nōn habuit doctōs tellūs antīqua colōnōs",
          "translation": "The ancient world did not have skilled farmers.\n(Other possible translations include “soil” or “country”.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "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; […]",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.10–14",
          "text": "Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,\nnec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,\nnec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs\nponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō\nmargine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]",
          "translation": "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; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Earth, globe, world"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "globe",
          "globe"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Almost beyond sight of the land of Sicily, upon the deep [sea]\nOr: On the deep [sea], [with] Sicilian land [being] scarcely out of sight",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.34",
          "text": "Vix ē cōnspectū Siculae tellūris in altum",
          "translation": "Almost beyond sight of the land of Sicily, upon the deep [sea]\nOr: On the deep [sea], [with] Sicilian land [being] scarcely out of sight",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "country, district, region, land"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "region",
          "region"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtɛl.luːs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtɛl.lus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tellus"
}

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