What name would u give to our planet (except the word earth)?
It has had many names, some of which are still present in our modern language. The Greeks had named the planets using the names of gods in their mythology. The Sun was Helios, Jupiter was Zeus, Saturn was Chronos, etc. Although our planet was not seen as a normal planet by all Greek astronomers (some thought it was fixed as the centre of the universe, therefore not a planet), it was still associated with Gaia (or Gea, or Ge), which we would have understood as “Mother Nature”. Gaia is the mother of all the other major gods (who themselves where the parents of the minor gods, etc.). Her husband was Ouranos (the sky). From Helios, we will have words like heliocentric (centered on the sun), perihelion (the closest point to the Sun, in a planet’s orbit). From Gaia, we got the prefix geo- as in geometry (measuring the Earth), geography (drawing the Earth), geology (understanding the Earth)… When astronomers began to write in Latin (which lasted a long time), they used the Roman equivalent
