Actually I have always been tought that the actual name of our planet is Tellus. Though that is what we were tought in swedish schools 20 years ago and I know it is the latin name for the Earth and also the roman goddess of Earth so who knows who is right...?
And as www.susning.nu says about Terra (sorry, swedish site) 'Terra is a latin noun that means land. On old maps you can see the words like terra ingocnita, which means unknown land'.
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Actually I have always been tought that the actual name of our planet is Tellus. Though that is what we were tought in swedish schools 20 years ago and I know it is the latin name for the Earth and also the roman goddess of Earth so who knows who is right...?
And as www.susning.nu says about Terra (sorry, swedish site) 'Terra is a latin noun that means land. On old maps you can see the words like terra ingocnita, which means unknown land'.