terre

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See also: Terre, terré, térre, térré, tèrre, and Tèrre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.

Pronunciation

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

  1. earth; soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

terre

  1. inflection of terrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Noun

terre f pl

  1. plural of terra

Latin

Verb

terrē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of terreō

Middle English

Noun

terre

  1. Alternative form of ter

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”).

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

  1. earth; soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Related terms

Neapolitan

Noun

terre

  1. plural of terra

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”).

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

  1. (Guernsey) earth, ground

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þorri. Cognate with Icelandic þorri

Noun

terre m (definite singular terrin)

  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) a period between January 13 and February 11, same as torre

See also

References

  • O. Havdal (1968) Meldal bygdebok: Bygdesoga til ikring 1700.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation

Noun

terre oblique singular, f (oblique plural terres, nominative singular terre, nominative plural terres)

  1. earth, soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Related terms

Descendants

  • Middle French: terre

Portuguese

Verb

terre

  1. inflection of terrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tarantino

Noun

terre

  1. earth
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