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tero

See also: Tero, teró, and térő

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian terra and French terre, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtero]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -ero
  • Hyphenation: te‧ro

Noun edit

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

  1. the earth's surface
    • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
      Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.
      Even from underground, the truth appears.
  2. soil, ground (substance)
  3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
  4. (often capitalized) the planet Earth
    Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.
    Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

Derived terms edit

Ido edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Esperanto tero, French terre, Italian terra, Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tero (uncountable)

  1. earth

See also edit

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

tero

  1. Rōmaji transcription of テロ

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).

See also Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”), Danish dreje (“to turn”), Swedish dreja (“to turn”), Albanian dredh (“to turn, twist, tremble”), Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation

  1. to rub or triturate
  2. to wear away or wear out, consume
    Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo
  3. to tread
  4. (time) to pass, spend
    Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

Conjugation edit

   Conjugation of terō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present terō teris terit terimus teritis terunt
imperfect terēbam terēbās terēbat terēbāmus terēbātis terēbant
future teram terēs teret terēmus terētis terent
perfect trīvī trīvistī trīvit trīvimus trīvistis trīvērunt,
trīvēre
pluperfect trīveram trīverās trīverat trīverāmus trīverātis trīverant
future perfect trīverō trīveris trīverit trīverimus trīveritis trīverint
passive present teror tereris,
terere 		teritur terimur teriminī teruntur
imperfect terēbar terēbāris,
terēbāre 		terēbātur terēbāmur terēbāminī terēbantur
future terar terēris,
terēre 		terētur terēmur terēminī terentur
perfect trītus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect trītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect trītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present teram terās terat terāmus terātis terant
imperfect tererem tererēs tereret tererēmus tererētis tererent
perfect trīverim trīverīs trīverit trīverīmus trīverītis trīverint
pluperfect trīvissem trīvissēs trīvisset trīvissēmus trīvissētis trīvissent
passive present terar terāris,
terāre 		terātur terāmur terāminī terantur
imperfect tererer tererēris,
tererēre 		tererētur tererēmur tererēminī tererentur
perfect trītus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect trītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — tere — — terite —
future — teritō teritō — teritōte teruntō
passive present — terere — — teriminī —
future — teritor teritor — — teruntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives terere trīvisse trītūrum esse terī trītum esse trītum īrī
participles terēns — trītūrus — trītus terendus,
terundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
terendī terendō terendum terendō trītum trītū

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tero 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)
  • tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɾo/ [ˈt̪e.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɾo
  • Syllabification: te‧ro

Noun edit

tero m (plural teros)

  1. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) teru-tero

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Tabaru edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tero

  1. (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

References edit

  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tero

  1. to hit, to make a hit

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of tero
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totero fotero mitero
2nd notero nitero
3rd Masculine otero itero, yotero†
Feminine motero
Neuter itero
† - archaic

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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