tellurion

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.

Từ đồng nghĩa

tellurian

tellurium

globe

terrestrial globe

Phát âm là (IPA)

/tɛˈljʊə.ɹɪ.ən/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ion (a Latinate suffix used in place of -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’)), possibly coined by Benjamin Martin (baptized 1705; died 1782), an English lecturer, lexicographer, and maker of scientific instruments: see the quotation.