tethys

Other forms of tethys

plural

tethyses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tethys

What does tethys mean?

tethys means "(Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tethys?

tethys has 2 syllables: te-thys. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for tethys?

Close synonyms include Aplysia, genus Aplysia, genus Tethus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tethys a common word?

tethys is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.