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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtɛl.luːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtɛl.lus]

名詞

tellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension

1. earth, ground, soil

   Synonyms: terra, solum, humus

2. Earth, globe, world
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.515:

     nōn habuit doctōs tellūs antīqua colōnōs

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

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:

     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; […]

3. country, district, region, land
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.34:

     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

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

• → French: tellure (learned)
• → Italian: tellure

参照

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray