terrenus

Latin[edit]

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *tērzeznos, from *tērzos +‎ *-nos, the first of which from Proto-Indo-European *tērsos, neuter s-stem to the root *ters- (“dry”).^[1]
Alternatively, from the locative form *terrai of terra and -nus. ^[2]

terrēnus (feminine terrēna, neuter terrēnum); first/second-declension adjective

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	terrēnus	terrēna	terrēnum	terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēna
Genitive	terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēnī	terrēnōrum	terrēnārum	terrēnōrum
Dative	terrēnō	terrēnae	terrēnō	terrēnīs
Accusative	terrēnum	terrēnam	terrēnum	terrēnōs	terrēnās	terrēna
Ablative	terrēnō	terrēnā	terrēnō	terrēnīs
Vocative	terrēne	terrēna	terrēnum	terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēna

“terrēnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“terrenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
terrenus 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)
terrēnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,560–1.
“terrēnus” on page 1,928 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “terrenus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,024/1

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “terrenus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 674
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “terra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 616