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Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tetrao.
Pronunciation
Noun
tetro (accusative singular tetron, plural tetroj, accusative plural tetrojn)
- (rare) black grouse; (Fundamento) grouse
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin taetrum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tetro (feminine tetra, masculine plural tetri, feminine plural tetre)
- gloomy, sullen
- bleak, dismal, grim
Derived terms
Further reading
- tetro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
tētrō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tēter
References
- “tetro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tetro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.