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Thule en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /θjuːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtuːliː/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈθjuːliː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /θuːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtuːliː/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
   • 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. ibidem, footnote 5
   • 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. 1969, V.E. Watts (translator), Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, bk III, ch. v, page 89
   • I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule. 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe II (1859), “Dream-Land”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6
2. (historical) A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
3. The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
4. A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
5. An air base built on the site in the 1940s.
6. A locality in the Murray River council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

Forms

Deriveds

Thulean · thulite · Thulegate

Descendants

थूले · 슐리 · ثولی · थ्यूली

Relateds

ultima Thule

Translations (17)

mr थ्यूली (legendary island in the far north) · hu Thule (legendary island in the far north) · ja トゥーレ (legendary island in the far north) · cmn 图勒 (legendary island in the far north) · fa ثولی (legendary island in the far north) · fr Thulé (legendary island in the far north) · el Θούλη (legendary island in the far north) · de Thule (legendary island in the far north) · ko 슐리 (legendary island in the far north) · pt Tule (legendary island in the far north) · ca Thule (legendary island in the far north) · mr थूले (legendary island in the far north) · xcl Թուլիս (legendary island in the far north) · eo Tuleo (legendary island in the far north) · fi Thule (legendary island in the far north) · et Thule (legendary island in the far north) · ru Фула (legendary island in the far north)

Thule en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

Meanings

1. The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
   • For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time. 2019 January 24, Stern, S. A., J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, C. B. Olkin, J. M. Moore, W. Grundy, R. Gladstone et al., “Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69”, in arXiv:
   • Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects. 2020, Umurhan, O. M., J. T. Keane, R. A. Beyer, M. Bird, I. Linscott, S. B. Porter, J. R. Spencer et al., “Thermophysical, Gravitational, and Geomorphology Properties of 2014 MU69”, in Abstracts of the 235th AAS Meeting (Honolulu, HI), page 717:

Forms

Coordinates

Ultima