terrasse

See also: Terrasse and terrassé

English

Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.

Noun

terrasse (plural terrasses)

1. (Quebec English) terrace, patio
2. (heraldry) A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.

Verb

terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)

1. To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
   • 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:

     However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.

   • 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:

     Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.

Anagrams

• Resetars, asserter, rearsets, reassert, serrates

Danish

Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tarasə/, [tˢaˈʁɑsə]

Noun

terrasse c (singular definite terrassen, plural indefinite terrasser)

1. terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
2. (heraldry) compartment

Declension

Declension of terrasse

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	terrasse	terrassen	terrasser	terrasserne
genitive	terrasses	terrassens	terrassers	terrassernes

Related terms

• terrassere (verb)
• terrassevin c

Further reading

• “terrasse” in Den Danske Ordbog
• terrasse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

From terre, probably influenced by Old Occitan terrassa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁas/, /te.ʁas/

• Audio:

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Noun

terrasse f (plural terrasses)

1. terrace

Descendants

• → Danish: terrasse
• → German: Terrasse
• → Romanian: terasă
• → Turkish: teras

Verb

terrasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of terrer

Verb

terrasse

1. inflection of terrasser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “terrasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• resteras, serrâtes, stèreras, stéreras, terseras, tressera

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrasser, definite plural terrassene)

1. terrace

Derived terms

• takterrasse

References

• “terrasse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.

Noun

terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrassar, definite plural terrassane)

1. terrace

Derived terms

• takterrasse

References

• “terrasse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

terrasse

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of terrar