See also: Terre, terré, térre, térré, tèrre, and Tèrre

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (earth), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry).

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

terre f (plural terres)

  1. earth; soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Verb edit

terre

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

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Noun edit

terre f pl

  1. plural of terra

Latin edit

Verb edit

terrē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of terreō

Middle English edit

Noun edit

terre

  1. Alternative form of ter

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (earth).

Noun edit

terre f (plural terres)

  1. earth; soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Related terms edit

Neapolitan edit

Noun edit

terre

  1. plural of terra

Norman edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (earth).

Noun edit

terre f (plural terres)

  1. (Guernsey) earth, ground

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse þorri. Cognate with Icelandic þorri

Noun edit

terre m (definite singular terrin)

  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) a period between January 13 and February 11, same as torre

See also edit

References edit

  • O. Havdal (1968) Meldal bygdebok: Bygdesoga til ikring 1700.

Old French edit

Etymology edit

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

terre oblique singularf (oblique plural terres, nominative singular terre, nominative plural terres)

  1. earth, soil
  2. land, property (delimited area)

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle French: terre

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

terre

  1. inflection of terrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tarantino edit

Noun edit

terre

  1. earth