earthling vs tellurian what difference
what is difference between earthling and tellurian
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɜːθlɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɝθlɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: earth‧ling
Etymology 1
From Middle English erthling (“farmer, ploughman”) [and other forms] (in glossaries), from Old English ierþling, eorþling (“farmer, husbandman, ploughman”) [and other forms], from eorþe (“ground; dirt; planet Earth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”)) + -ling (suffix forming personal nouns). The English word is analysable as earth + -ling.
Noun
earthling (plural earthlings)
- (obsolete except historical) One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
Etymology 2
See Earthling.
Noun
earthling (plural earthlings)
- Alternative letter-case form of Earthling
References
Anagrams
- haltering, heartling, lathering, real thing
English
Etymology
From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”), + -ian (suffix meaning “from, related to, or like” when forming an adjective, or “one from, belonging to, relating to, or like” when forming a noun).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɛˈljʊə.ɹɪ.ən/, /tɪ-/, /-ˈljɔː-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /tɛˈl(j)ʊ.ɹi.ən/, /tə-/, [tʰəˈlɝː.iː.ɨ̃n]
- Homophone: tellurion
- Hyphenation: tel‧lur‧i‧an
Adjective
tellurian (not comparable)
- (formal or literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically, chiefly science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other planets. [from mid 19th c.]
- Synonyms: earthly, telluric, terrene, terrestrial
- (mineralogy) Of a mineral: containing tellurium.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
tellurian (plural tellurians)
- (astronomy, historical) Alternative spelling of tellurion (“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”)
- (chiefly science fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Tellurian (“inhabitant of the planet Earth”)
Notes
References
Further reading
- tellurian (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- unliteral