Tethys

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈtɛθɪs/, /ˈtiːθɪs/

Proper noun

1. (Greek god) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
2. (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 106:

     Much of the Tethys was shallow and warm during the Mesozoic, and full of life, a marine paradise of sorts: ammonites and sharks thrived, and are now preserved as fossils that date the rocks.

   1. The iteration of this oceanic basin during the Mesozoic, the most recent iteration.
3. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

Synonyms

• Tethys Ocean / Tethys Sea
• Neotethys / Neotethys Ocean / Neotethys Sea
• Neo-Tethys / Neo-Tethys Ocean / Neo-Tethys Sea
• (the iterative ocean basin) Tethyan Ocean / Tethyan Sea
• (collectively, all iterations) Tethyan Oceans / Tethyan Seas

Translations

• French: Téthys
• Portuguese: Tétis
• Russian: Те́фия

Translations

• French: Téthys
• German: Thetys
• Italian: Teti
• Portuguese: Tétis
• Russian: Те́фия
• Spanish: Tetis

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