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单词 Tellus
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Tellus

/ˈtɛləs/
noun
1The goddess of the earth in Roman mythology.
  • The personified form may be imagined as either female or (less commonly) male. The Roman deity is occasionally also imagined as male..
2The planet earth. Formerly also: †the earth, the ground (obsolete ).
  • In later use chiefly in Science Fiction contexts..

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in John Lydgate (c1370–c1449), poet and prior of Hatfield Regis. From classical Latin tellūs earth, ground, also personified as a goddess, planet earth from the same Indo-European base as theal.

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