Tethys

From Ancient Greek Τηθύς (Tēthús).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛθɪs/, /ˈtiːθɪs/

Tethys

1. (Greek mythology) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
2. (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 106:

     Much of the Tethys was shallow and warm during the Mesozoic, and full of life, a marine paradise of sorts: ammonites and sharks thrived, and are now preserved as fossils that date the rocks.

3. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

• Tethyan

• Shetty, stythe, tythes