Thetisn.
/ˈθɛtɪs/, /ˈθiːtɪs/, U.S. /ˈθidəs/, /ˈθɛdəs/ 1. Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology. One of the Nereids or sea-nymphs, the mother of Achilles; poetically, the sea personified.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
1422 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 14 Thetes wiche is of water chef Goddes.
c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xiii. 133 Neptune too, and Thetis greene, In my palace may bee seene.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. ii. 208 The Bridegroom-Doge, who in his stately Bucentaur floats on the Bosom of his Thetis, has less possession than the poor Shepherd, who from a hanging Rock..admires her Beauty.
1840 R. H. Barham Witches' Frolic in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 164 If..he laid his head In Thetis's lap beneath the seas.
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2. Astronomy. Name of the seventeenth asteroid.
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ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. C2v The Treasure-house of Neptunes Thetisie.
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D3 When fatall Neptune..hal'd him to his Thetisie.
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