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Definitions and meaning of terra

terra

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terra. Doublet of terrier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹə
• Homophone: terror (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

terra (plural terras or terrae)

1. A continent or large landmass, e.g. Arabia Terra or Aphrodite Terra.
2. A Lunar highland or mountainous region with a relatively high albedo, e.g. Terra Nivium.

Related terms

Anagrams

• Arter, arrêt, arter, rater, retar, tarre

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan terra, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɛ.ra]
• Rhymes: -ɛra

Noun

terra f (plural terres)

1. earth
2. land

Noun

terra m (plural terres)

1. ground

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “terra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “terra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “terra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “terra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• tarra

Etymology

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terza. Cognates include Italian terra and French terre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrːa/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ra
• Rhymes: -ɛrːa

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. earth
2. land
3. soil

Descendants

• Gallurese: tarra

References

• “terra, tarra” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Estonian

Noun

terra

1. illative singular of tera

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse þerra.

Verb

terra (third person singular past indicative terraði, third person plural past indicative terraðu, supine terrað)

1. to dry

Conjugation

Synonyms

• torna, turka

Antonyms

• fukta, slaga, væta

French

Verb

terra

1. third-person singular past historic of terrer

Anagrams

• arrêt, errât, rater

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra. Cognate with Portuguese terra, Catalan terra, and Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛra̝/

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

1. soil, earth
2. land, country
3. (in the plural) real estate possesions or heritage

Related terms

• soterrar
• terreo
• territorio

See also

• Terra

References

• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “terra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “terra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “terra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛrra
• Hyphenation: tèr‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. ground
2. (colloquial, atechnical synonym of suolo (“terreno”, “soil”)) soil

   Synonyms: suolo, terreno

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Terra (“Earth”).

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Terra) planet

   Synonym: pianeta

Derived terms

See also

• geo-
• luna
• mondo
• sole

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

Cognate with torreō, Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛ́ṣyati), Old English þurst (English thirst). Compare the semantics of Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛrːä]

Noun

terra f (genitive terrae); first declension

1. dry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth)
2. ground, floor (the surface of the land)

   Synonym: humus

3. earth, soil, dirt, clay, clod (the substance generally composing the dry land)

   Synonyms: solum, tellūs, humus

4. land, country, region, territory (any given area of dry land)
5. earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)
7. the Earth, the globe, the world (as a celestial object)

Usage notes

The use of terra to describe the globe as a heavenly body was already established in antiquity, but in New Latin, as the Earth became more indistinguishable from other planets, it gradually came to be treated as a proper noun (see Terra). The English Earth underwent this same transition.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• “terra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terra 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)
• terra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “terra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “terra”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Anagrams

• errat

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrrə/

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. land

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1623: “cade bocconi (colla pancia in terra)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

terra f (oblique plural terras, nominative singular terra, nominative plural terras)

1. land

Related terms

• terrassa

Descendants

• Occitan: tèrra

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ha/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra.

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

2. land; region; territory (area associated with something)

4. ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings)

6. land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone)

8. (sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water)

10. earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground)

12. land; homeland

Synonyms

• (region): região, território
• (ground): chão, solo
• (property): terreno
• (dry land): terra firme
• (homeland): terra natal, terrinha

Derived terms

• terrinha (diminutive)

Related terms

Proper noun

terra f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Terra

Etymology 2

Verb

terra

1. inflection of terrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• Terra

Romansch

Alternative forms

• tiara (Sursilvan)

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) land, soil
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) country, land
4. (capitalized, proper noun, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) the planet Earth

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais
• (Sutsilvan) pajis
• (Surmiran) paeis
• (Puter) terrain

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʐʐa/, /ˈtɛrra/
• Hyphenation: tèr‧ra

Noun

terra f (plural terri)

1. land
2. earth
3. soil
4. ground

Related terms

• tirritòriu
• tirrazzu
• tirrenu

Source: wiktionary.org