Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

telluric

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English

Syllables: tel-luric
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.

adj

Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.

noun

Synonym of telluric current.

Example Sentences

"My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric."
"Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics."

Etymology

A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: tellurique, tellus, Telluroxyd

Inflected Forms

more telluric (comparative) most telluric (superlative) tellurics (plural)

Derived Forms

hydrotelluric intratelluric magnetotelluric magnetotellurics tellurism tellurist ultratelluric

Phrases

telluric acid telluric bismuth telluric current telluric gold telluric iron telluric ochertelluric ochre telluric oxide telluric planet

Frequently Paired Words

tellurous

Synonyms

earthly terrestrial tellurian terrene telluric current

Questions

What does telluric mean?: Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
Where does telluric come from?: It is traced to French.

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