Thule

== English == === Alternative forms === (with ού / ύ represented by u) Thule, Thulé, Thulê, Thulē, Thūlē, Tule [17th C.] (with ού / ύ represented by y) Thyle [17th C.], Thylé (with ού / ύ represented by ou) Thoule, Thoulê === Etymology 1 === From Classical Latin Thūlē, Thȳlē, from Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē), Θῡ́λη (Thū́lē), of unknown origin, cognate with Middle English Tīle, Tȳle, from Old English Thȳle, Thīla, Thīle (variants of Þȳle) and Medieval Latin Tīle. ==== Pronunciation ==== island in antiquity (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθjuːliː/, /ˈθuːliː/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtuːliː/ Rhymes: -uːliː, -uːl historical Eskimo culture (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θuːl/, /θjuːl/ IPA(key): (General American) /ˈtuːliː/ Rhymes: -uːliː, -uːl airbase IPA(key): (Received Pronunciation, General American) /ˈtuːliː/ Rhymes: -uːliː ==== 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. (historical) A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party. The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries. A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen. An air base built on the site in the 1940s. ===== Derived terms ===== Thulean ===== Related terms ===== ultima Thule ===== Descendants ===== → Korean: 슐리 (Syulli) → Marathi: थूले (Thūle), थ्यूली (Thyūlī) → Persian: ثولی (Sūlī) ===== Translations ===== ==== Further reading ==== Thule (people) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below). ==== Proper noun ==== Thule The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object. ===== Coordinate terms ===== Ultima (the larger lobe of Ultima Thule) === References === === Anagrams === Hulet, Lueth == Latin == === Alternative forms === Thīle === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē, “Thule”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʰuː.ɫeː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.le] === Proper noun === Thūlē f sg (genitive Thūlēs); first declension a legendary northern island, Thule (Medieval Latin) Iceland ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “Thule”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press