teres

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See also: térés

English

Etymology

From Latin teres (“rounded”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹəs/ (more etymological)
  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːɹiːs/ (less etymological)

Noun

teres (plural teretes)

  1. (anatomy) A terete muscle.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

teres

  1. second-person singular personal infinitive of ter

Latin

Etymology

From terō (“grind, rub”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

teres (genitive teretis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. rounded
  2. polished, smooth

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative teres teretēs teretia
Genitive teretis teretium
Dative teretī teretibus
Accusative teretem teres teretēs teretia
Ablative teretī teretibus
Vocative teres teretēs teretia

References

  • “teres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “teres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • teres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • teres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
  • “teres”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “teres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “teres”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Noun

teres

  1. plural of teer

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: te‧res

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

teres

  1. second-person singular personal infinitive of ter

Etymology 2

Noun

teres m (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of tereré
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