different between tholes vs tholus

English

Noun

tholes

1. plural of thole

Anagrams

• Holtes, Lhotse, helots, hostel, hotels, hôtels, loseth, shotel

English

Etymology

From Latin tholus (“dome, rotunda”).

Noun

tholus (plural tholi)

1. (astronomy, geology) A small domical mountain or hill.

   Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano.

2. A round building, dome, or cupola.

   Synonym: thole

Anagrams

• hoults

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (thólos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?o.lus/, [?t??????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.lus/, [?t???lus]

Noun

tholus m (genitive thol?); second declension

1. dome, cupola, rotunda

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• tholus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tholus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tholus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tholus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tholus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tholus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin