Tellus

Meaning

1. (Roman) The goddess of the Earth in Roman mythology.
2. (literary) The planet Earth.

Translations

Terra

Tellus de Athener

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tellus (“Earth, globe, world”), from Proto-Italic *telnos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *telnos ~ *telnes-, from *telh₂- (“flat ground”), but reshaped after rūs. Otherwise, could derive from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓 (tular, “earth”).