tellurion

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /tɛˈljʊə.ɹɪ.ən/|/tɪ-/|/-ˈljɔː-/    美 /tɛˈl(j)ʊ.ɹi.ən/|/tə-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. historical
    — The Second Part of this Orrery I call a Tellurian, [...] becauſe it ſhews moſt accurately and evidently all the Phœnomena ariſing from the Annual and Diurnal Motions of the Earth, in a Terreſtrial Globe full Three Inches in a Diameter; upon which all the Parts of the terraqueous Surface are diſtinctly delineated, [...]

词形变化

tellurions plural tellarium alternative tellurian alternative tellurium alternative

词源

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.
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