terebra
See also: Terebra
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
terebra (plural terebras or terebrae)
- The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
- (historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “terebra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin terebra.
Noun edit
terebra f (plural terebre)
- terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
terebra
- inflection of terebrare:
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛrɛbrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛːrebrä]
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
terebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension
- an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | terebra | terebrae |
Genitive | terebrae | terebrārum |
Dative | terebrae | terebrīs |
Accusative | terebram | terebrās |
Ablative | terebrā | terebrīs |
Vocative | terebra | terebrae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: turjelë (from a diminutive)
- → Italian: terebra
- Old Galician-Portuguese: (from a diminutive)
- → Portuguese: térebra
- Spanish: tarabilla (from a diminutive)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
terebrā
References edit
- “terebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- terebra 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)
- terebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “terebra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “terebra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin