tero

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian terra and French terre, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: te‧ro

Noun

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

1. the earth's surface
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:

     Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.

     Even from underground, the truth appears.

2. soil, ground (substance)
3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
4. (often capitalized) the planet Earth

   Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.

   Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tero, French terre, Italian terra, Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

Noun

tero (uncountable)

1. earth

See also

• Tero

Japanese

Romanization

tero

1. Rōmaji transcription of テロ

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).

See also Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”), Danish dreje (“to turn”), Swedish dreja (“to turn”), Albanian dredh (“to turn, twist, tremble”), Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ro/,

Verb

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation

1. to rub or triturate
2. to wear away or wear out, consume

   Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo

3. to tread
4. (time) to pass, spend

   Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• tero 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)
• tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɾo/
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: te‧ro

Noun

tero m (plural teros)

1. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) teru-tero

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• rote, roté, reto

Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tero

1. (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɾo/

Verb

tero

1. to hit, to make a hit

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh