tero

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See also: Tero, teró, and térő

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian terra and French terre, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈtero]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -ero
  • Hyphenation: te‧ro

Noun[edit]

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

  1. the earth's surface
    • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
      Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.
      Even from underground, the truth appears.
  2. soil, ground (substance)
  3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
  4. (often capitalized) the planet Earth
    Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.
    Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

Derived terms[edit]

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Esperanto teroFrench terreItalian terraSpanish tierra.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tero (uncountable)

  1. earth

See also[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn).

See also Scots thraw (to twist, turn, throw), Dutch draaien (to turn), Low German draien, dreien (to turn (in a lathe)), German drehen (to turn), Danish dreje (to turn), Swedish dreja (to turn), Albanian dredh (to turn, twist, tremble), Russian тереть (teretʹ, to rub).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation

  1. to rub or triturate
  2. to wear away or wear out, consume
    Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo
  3. to tread
  4. (time) to pass, spend
    Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

Conjugation[edit]

   Conjugation of terō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present terō teris terit terimus teritis terunt
imperfect terēbam terēbās terēbat terēbāmus terēbātis terēbant
future teram terēs teret terēmus terētis terent
perfect trīvī trīvistī trīvit trīvimus trīvistis trīvērunt,
trīvēre
pluperfect trīveram trīverās trīverat trīverāmus trīverātis trīverant
future perfect trīverō trīveris trīverit trīverimus trīveritis trīverint
passive present teror tereris,
terere
teritur terimur teriminī teruntur
imperfect terēbar terēbāris,
terēbāre
terēbātur terēbāmur terēbāminī terēbantur
future terar terēris,
terēre
terētur terēmur terēminī terentur
perfect trītus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect trītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect trītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present teram terās terat terāmus terātis terant
imperfect tererem tererēs tereret tererēmus tererētis tererent
perfect trīverim trīverīs trīverit trīverīmus trīverītis trīverint
pluperfect trīvissem trīvissēs trīvisset trīvissēmus trīvissētis trīvissent
passive present terar terāris,
terāre
terātur terāmur terāminī terantur
imperfect tererer tererēris,
tererēre
tererētur tererēmur tererēminī tererentur
perfect trītus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect trītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present tere terite
future teritō teritō teritōte teruntō
passive present terere teriminī
future teritor teritor teruntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives terere trīvisse trītūrum esse terī trītum esse trītum īrī
participles terēns trītūrus trītus terendus,
terundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
terendī terendō terendum terendō trītum trītū

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tero 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)
  • tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɾo/ [ˈt̪e.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɾo
  • Syllabification: te‧ro

Noun[edit]

tero m (plural teros)

  1. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) teru-tero

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Tabaru[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

tero

  1. (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

References[edit]

  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

tero

  1. to hit, to make a hit

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of tero
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totero fotero mitero
2nd notero nitero
3rd Masculine otero itero, yotero
Feminine motero
Neuter itero
- archaic

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh