Meaning of tellūs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. earth, ground, soil
   declension-3
2. Earth
   declension-3
3. Earth, globe, world
   declension-3
4. An ancient goddess of the Earth
   declension-3
5. country, district, region, land
   declension-3

Equivalents

Examples

“nōn habuit doctōs tellūs antīqua colōnōs”

The ancient world did not have skilled farmers. (Other possible translations include “soil” or “country”.)

“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; […]

“Vix ē cōnspectū Siculae tellūris in altum”

Almost beyond sight of the land of Sicily, upon the deep [sea] Or: On the deep [sea], [with] Sicilian land [being] scarcely out of sight

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