terrestris

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *tērzestris, from *tērzos +‎ *-tris,^[1] the first of which would also be the base of terrēnus. The suffix would otherwise be seen in bimēnstris and maybe in palūster, equester, pedester. Reanalysis as terr-estris, as if derived from terra, would have yielded a new suffix -estris which is found in e.g. campester and silvestris. From a synchronic perspective of Classical Latin, terrestris indeed contained the -estris-suffix.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /terˈres.tris/, [t̪ɛrˈrɛs̠t̪rɪs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /terˈres.tris/, [t̪erˈrɛst̪ris]

Adjective edit

terrestris (neuter terrestre); third-declension two-termination adjective

Of or pertaining to the earth or land; terrestrial, earthly.

Declension edit

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	terrestris	terrestre	terrestrēs	terrestria
Genitive	terrestris		terrestrium
Dative	terrestrī		terrestribus
Accusative	terrestrem	terrestre	terrestrēs terrestrīs	terrestria
Ablative	terrestrī		terrestribus
Vocative	terrestris	terrestre	terrestrēs	terrestria

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Catalan: terrestre
English: terrestrial
French: terrestre
- → Romanian: terestru
Friulian: terest
Italian: terrestre
Old French: terrestre
- Norman: tèrrêtre
Portuguese: terrestre
Romanian: terestru
Spanish: terrestre

References edit

“terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
terrestris 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)
terrestris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
- geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “terrestris”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 673

[1] Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “terrestris”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 673

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