terraqueous
/təˈɹeɪ.kwi.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Terraqueous Globe comprehending Sea and Land, Rivers and Lakes, ſtands divided by modern Geographers into tvvo Semi-Orbs, viz. the Old, and Nevv VVorld."
- "[T]here may poſſibly be One Plastick Inconſcious Nature, in the vvhole Terraqueous Globe, by vvhich Vegetables may be ſeverally organized and framed, and all things performed vvhich tranſcend the Povver of Fortuitous Mechaniſm."
- "A Part hovv ſmall of the terraqueous Globe / Is tenanted by man? the reſt a VVaſte, / Rocks, Deſerts, frozen Seas, and burning Sands; / VVild haunts of Monſters, Poiſons, Stings, and Death: / Such is Earth's melancholy Map!"
- "[…] Providence enjoins to ev'ry ſoul / An union vvith the vaſt terraqueous vvhole."
- "'And when we come to that lane^([sic – meaning line]) your worship speaks of,' said Sancho [Panza], 'how far shall we have gone?' / 'Very far,' said Don Quixote, 'for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest cosmographer known, we shall have travelled one-half when we come to the line I spoke of.'"
- "Thus the vicissitudes of the land and ocean, portrayed in the tertiary formations, harmonise perfectly with other terraqueous phenomena of the same geological period."
Etymology
PIE word *h₂ékʷeh₂ Learned borrowing from Late Latin terraqueus + English -ous (suffix denoting the presence of a quality in any degree, usually an abundance). Terraqueus is derived from Latin terra (“dry land; earth, soil”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”)) + Late Latin aqueus (“aqueous; watery”) (from Latin aqua (“water”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns denoting the sources of attributes)).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /təˈɹeɪ.kwi.əs/
- British English: /təˈɹeɪ.kwi.əs/