Que a categoria em Definição / Significado de ThuleENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION 2
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English - Pronunciation 2
* (UK) IPA(key): /θuːl/, /θjuːl/
* (US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːliː/
* Rhymes: -uːliː, -uːl
PROPER NOUN
THULE
* The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
Proper noun
Que a categoria em Definição / Significado de ThuleENGLISH - ALTERNATIVE FORMS
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English - Alternative Forms
* α forms (with ού / ύ represented by _u_): Thule, Thulé, Thulê, Thulē, Thūlē, Tule [17th C.]
* β forms (with ού / ύ represented by _y_): Thyle [17th C.], Thylé
* γ forms (with ού / ύ represented by _ou_): Thoule, Thoulê
Que a categoria em Definição / Significado de ThuleENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY
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English - Etymology
From the Middle English _Tīle_, _Tȳle_, from the Old English _Tȳle_, _Thīla_, _Tīle_ (variants of _Þȳle_) and the Medieval Latin _Tīle_, from the Classical Latin _Thūlē_, _Thȳlē_, from the Ancient Greek _Θούλη_ (Thoúlē), _Θύλη_ (Thúlē), of unknown origin.
From the Middle English Tīle, Tȳle, from the Old English Tȳle, Thīla, Tīle (variants of Þȳle) and the Medieval Latin Tīle, from the Classical Latin Thūlē, Thȳlē, from the Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē), Θύλη (Thúlē), of unknown origin.
Que a categoria em Definição / Significado de ThuleENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION 1
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English - Pronunciation 1
* (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθjuːliː/, /ˈθuːliː/
* (US) IPA(key): /θuːl/, /ˈθjuːliː/
* Rhymes: -uːliː, -uːl
PROPER NOUN
THULE
* The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
* 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, _The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe_ II (1859), “Dream-Land”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6:
I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim THULE.
* 1969, V.E. Watts (translator), Boëthius (author), _The Consolation of Philosophy_, bk III, ch. v, page 89:
For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And THULÉ⁵ bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave.
* _ibidem_, footnote 5:
5. To the Romans THULÉ, variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east.
DERIVED TERMS
* Thulean
RELATED TERMS
* ultima Thule
Proper noun
- The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
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Que a categoria em Definição / Significado de ThuleENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION 3
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English - Pronunciation 3
* (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːliː/
* Rhymes: -uːliː
PROPER NOUN
THULE
* A settlement and airbase in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
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Proper noun
- A settlement and airbase in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
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