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noun an inhabitant of the earth
adjective of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
originFrom Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’ (when forming an adjective), or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’ (when forming a noun)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0