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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /terˈri.d͡ʒe.na/
- Rhymes: -idʒena
- Hyphenation: ter‧rì‧ge‧na
Adjective
terrigena
- feminine singular of terrigeno
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From terra (“earth”) + -gena (“born from”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
terrigena (genitive terrigenae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)
- born of or from the earth
- earth-born
Declension
First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).
Descendants
References
- “terrigena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- terrigena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.