| 单词 |
Thetis |
| 释义 |
Thetis|ˈθɛtɪs|
[a. Gr. θέτις, proper name.]
1. Gr. and Rom. Mythol. One of the Nereids or sea-nymphs, the mother of Achilles; poetically, the sea personified.
1422Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 14 Thetes wiche is of water chef Goddes. c1620T. Robinson Mary Magd. 14 Neptune too, and Thetis greene, In my palace may bee seene. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 396 The bridegroom-doge, who in his stately Bucentaur floats on the bosom of his Thetis, has less possession than the poor shepherd, who from a hanging rock..admires her beauty. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Witches' Frolic 87 If..he laid his head In Thetis's lap beneath the seas.
2. Astron. Name of the seventeenth asteroid.
Hence † ˈThetisie, obs. nonce-wd., the abode of Thetis and the Nereids; the watery realm.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. xl, The Treasure-house of Neptune's Thetisie. Ibid. lxxiv, When fatall Neptune..hal'd him to his Thetisie. |
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