terebra
See also: Terebra
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editterebra (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editEtymology 1
editLearned borrowing from Latin terebra.
Noun
editterebra f (plural terebre)
- terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editterebra
- inflection of terebrare:
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛrɛbrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛːrebrä]
Etymology 1
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editterebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension
- an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet
Declension
editFirst-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
editDescendants
edit- → Albanian: turjelë (from a diminutive)
- → Italian: terebra
- Old Galician-Portuguese: (from a diminutive)
- → Portuguese: térebra
- Spanish: tarabilla (from a diminutive)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editterebrā
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
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