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early 19th century: modern Latin, from Latin tellus, tellur- ‘earth’, probably named in contrast to uranium.
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Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti; the vowel was then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.