Tiamat
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from English Tiamat (“mythical goddess”).
Proper noun
†Tiamat
- A taxonomic genus within the clade †Titanosauria – a sauropod dinosaur from the 'mid'-Cretaceous Açu Formation of Brazil.
Hyponyms
- (genus): †Tiamat valdecii – sole species
References
- Tiamat (dinosaur) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tiamat on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Tiamat valdecii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (tiāmtum, “sea; a deity”), from Proto-Semitic *tihām- (“sea”).
Proper noun
Tiamat
- (mythology) A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
- (in the works of Zecharia Sitchin) A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.
- 2003, Albert T Clay, Paul Tice, Atrahasis: An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story:
- Sitchin also tells us Mummu was the planet Mercury - "One Who Was Born," and that Tiamat was an earlier Earth.