terreo

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See also: térreo

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin terrēnus. Cognate with Portuguese terreno and Spanish terreno.

Pronunciation

Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)

  1. ground
    Synonym: chan
    • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 556:
      Outrosy mandamos que o dicto martin bezerra et sua moller façan outra porta a a dicta casa noua en a outra quadra via de de çima en o chaao, et que non aia altura nehuna do terreo, et que seia ancha tanto por que posa entrar longura de hun tonel a traues, et de altura por que posa entrar un ome ençima de hun caualo, et que non seia ferrada de ferro, saluo palmelas et golfoos pertenesçentes.
      Otherwise, we command that the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should made another gate in this new house, in the other square, in the ground level, which should not have any elevation over the ground; it should be wide enough to enter a barrel in long, and high enough for a mounted man, and it should have not iron reinforcements with the exception of the needed leaves and pins
  2. terrain; plot; field
    Synonyms: campo, herdade, leira, predio
    • 1413, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 140:
      et outros dous terreos na cortiña do Torno, que jaz hun deles a caron d'outro de Rodrigo Ares da Presa
      and another two plots in the garden of Torno; one of them alongside another one which belongs to Rodrigo Ares da Presa
    • 1812, Ramón González Serna, Carta Recomendada:
      é ó mesmo que tornar os paxaros de un tarreo para que non coman ó grao, é deixar ó mesmo tempo portelos abertos para que ó coman os porcos
      it is the same as driving away the birds from a terrain so that they don't eat the grain, and then leaving the gates open for the pigs to do it

Adjective

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terreos, feminine plural terreas)

  1. earthen

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terreus (earthy). By surface analysis, terr(a) (ground, earth) +‎ -eo (-ous, derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛr.re.o/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrreo
  • Hyphenation: tèr‧re‧o

Adjective

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terrei, feminine plural terree)

  1. (rare) earthy; resembling ground or soil
  2. (by extension, usually referred to the face) pale, ashen

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From *tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti, causative from *tres- (to tremble), extended form of Proto-Indo-European *ter-.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬭𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (trərəsaiti), Ancient Greek τρέω (tréō), Old Irish tarrach, Lithuanian trišu, Latvian trisēt, Old Church Slavonic трѧсти (tręsti), Sanskrit त्रसति (trasati). See also tremō, trepidus.

Pronunciation

Verb

terreō (present infinitive terrēre, perfect active terruī, supine territum); second conjugation

  1. to frighten, terrify, alarm
    Synonyms: perterreō, exterreō, conterreō, dēterreō, absterreō, exciō, cōnsternō
  2. to deter by terror, scare (away)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of terreō (second conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present terreō terrēs terret terrēmus terrētis terrent
imperfect terrēbam terrēbās terrēbat terrēbāmus terrēbātis terrēbant
future terrēbō terrēbis terrēbit terrēbimus terrēbitis terrēbunt
perfect terruī terruistī terruit terruimus terruistis terruērunt,
terruēre
pluperfect terrueram terruerās terruerat terruerāmus terruerātis terruerant
future perfect terruerō terrueris terruerit terruerimus terrueritis terruerint
passive present terreor terrēris,
terrēre
terrētur terrēmur terrēminī terrentur
imperfect terrēbar terrēbāris,
terrēbāre
terrēbātur terrēbāmur terrēbāminī terrēbantur
future terrēbor terrēberis,
terrēbere
terrēbitur terrēbimur terrēbiminī terrēbuntur
perfect territus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect territus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect territus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present terream terreās terreat terreāmus terreātis terreant
imperfect terrērem terrērēs terrēret terrērēmus terrērētis terrērent
perfect terruerim terruerīs terruerit terruerīmus terruerītis terruerint
pluperfect terruissem terruissēs terruisset terruissēmus terruissētis terruissent
passive present terrear terreāris,
terreāre
terreātur terreāmur terreāminī terreantur
imperfect terrērer terrērēris,
terrērēre
terrērētur terrērēmur terrērēminī terrērentur
perfect territus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect territus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present terrē terrēte
future terrētō terrētō terrētōte terrentō
passive present terrēre terrēminī
future terrētor terrētor terrentor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives terrēre terruisse territūrum esse terrērī territum esse territum īrī
participles terrēns territūrus territus terrendus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
terrendī terrendō terrendum terrendō territum territū

Derived terms

References

  • terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • terreo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.