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Theia (/ ˈ θ iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Θεία, romanized: Theía, lit. 'divine', also rendered Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυφάεσσα, "wide-shining"), is one of the twelve Titans, the children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus in Greek mythology.
Thea may refer to: Thea (name), a given name; Ancient Greek term for goddess, including an alternative spelling of Theia; Thea, the former name of the tea plant genus, now included in Camellia; Thea, a village in the multiple unit Messatida, Achaea, Greece; Thea (award), the annual award from the Themed Entertainment Association
It might have originated as a short form of names containing the word element tia or thea. The word tía is coincidentally the Portuguese and Spanish word for aunt. Some parents might have used the name in reference to the alcoholic beverage Tia Maria. Tiana might be an extended version of the name.
The TRAP–BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in the southern and mainstream varieties of English in England (including Received Pronunciation), in the Southern Hemisphere accents of English (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English), and also to a lesser extent in older Boston English, by which the Early ...
Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.
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Thea, Tia Anthea ( Ancient Greek : Ἄνθεια ), "blossom" in Greek, was an epithet of the Classical Greek goddess Hera , the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.