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Definition: Thetis |
ThetisNoun1. (Greek mythology) one of the 50 Nereids; mother of Achilles by Peleus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Thetis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. According to prophecy, Thetis's son would be greater than his father, so Zeus and Poseidon each resisted her beauty and made arrangements for her marriage to a mortal man.
According to legend, Thetis had tried to make Achilles invincible by dipping him in the river Styx, but forgot to wet the heel she held him by, leaving him vulnerable so he could be killed by a blow to that heel. (See Achilles' heel.) Homer, however, makes no mention of this; Achilles can not be a hero if he is not at risk. In an earlier and less popular version of the story, Thetis anointed the boy in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away the mortal parts of his body. She was interrupted by Peleus and abandoned both father and son in a rage. Peleus gave him to Chiron to raise.
Thetis was one of the gods behind the Oracle at Delphi, which she received from Gaia and gave to Phoebe.
Homer. Iliad; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica IV, 770-879.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ocean | Hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin. |
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Crosswords: Thetis |
| Specialty definitions using "Thetis": Sea Deities. (references) |
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 | Catapults four F8U "Crusader" jet fighters in quick succession from her bow and waist catapults, during operations in the eastern Pacific, circa 1958. An F4D "Skyray" fighter is partially visible in the foreground. Ship at left is USS Thetis Bay (CVHA-1). Credit: NAVY. |  | At anchor in midstream, probably off New London, Connecticut, circa 1917-18. Photographed from USS Thetis (SP-391), which was underway. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Thetis. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Thetis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Thetis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Thetis" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (plural) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thetis island | 29 |
thetis | 27 |
lake thetis | 7 |
real estate thetis island | 3 |
campground lake thetis | 3 |
navi perini thetis | 2 |
thetis island bc | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Thetis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | θέτισ, θέτιδα. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etisthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tétis. (various references) | |
Russian | фетида, Фетида. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tetida. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words containing "Thetis": anesthetist, anesthetists, prosthetist, prosthetists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: theist, tithes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: heist, teths, tithe. | |
-2 letters: eths, hest, hets, hies, hist, hits, sett, site, sith, stet, test, teth, tets, this, ties. | |
-3 letters: eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, its, sei, set, she, sit, tet, the, tie, tis. | |
-4 letters: eh, es, et, he, hi, is, it, sh, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: atheist, hitters, lithest, pettish, staithe, theists, thistle, tithers, wettish, whitest. | |
+2 letters: atheists, blithest, chitters, chitties, ditheist, epithets, esthetic, ethicist, fitchets, gothites, hastiest, heftiest, hesitant, hesitate, hootiest, itchiest, lathiest, lightest, mothiest, mythiest, pithiest, restitch, rightest, sixtieth, staithes, stitched, stitcher, stitches, stithied, stithies, tachiste, techiest, theistic, thelitis, theorist, thewiest, thickest, thickets, thickset, thinnest, thirsted, thirster, thirties, thistles, thorites, thymiest, tightens, tightest, twitches, whitiest, whitters, whittles, withiest. | |
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