different between seasons vs tellurion

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?zn?z/
• Hyphenation: sea?sons

Noun

seasons

1. plural of season

Verb

seasons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of season

Anagrams

• osseans

English

Etymology

From Latin tell?s (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh?- (“to bear, carry; to endure, undergo”) +? -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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??lj??.??.?n/, /t?-/, /-?lj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??l(j)?.?i.?n/, /t?-/
• Homophone: tellurian
• Hyphenation: tel?lur?i?on

Noun

tellurion (plural tellurions)

1. (astronomy, historical) 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.

Alternative forms

• tellarium (probably erroneous)
• tellurian
• tellurium

Translations

See also

• orrery

Notes

References

Further reading

• tellurion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia