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tellure

tellure is a Latin form of tellus, meaning “earth, land”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 141 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.214: dum sicca tellure licet, dum nubila pendent.

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.M8.18: Tellure demersi petunt.

All forms of tellus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.