terrestris
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Proto-Italic *tērzestris, from *tērzos + *-tris,[1] the first of which would also be the base of terrēnus. The suffix would otherwise be seen in bimēnstris and maybe in palūster, equester, pedester. Reanalysis as terr-estris, as if derived from terra, would have yielded a new suffix -estris which is found in e.g. campester and silvestris. From a synchronic perspective of Classical Latin, terrestris indeed contained the -estris-suffix.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /terˈres.tris/, [t̪ɛrˈrɛs̠t̪rɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /terˈres.tris/, [t̪erˈrɛst̪ris]
Adjective[edit]
terrestris (neuter terrestre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or pertaining to the earth or land; terrestrial, earthly.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | terrestris | terrestre | terrestrēs | terrestria | |
| Genitive | terrestris | terrestrium | |||
| Dative | terrestrī | terrestribus | |||
| Accusative | terrestrem | terrestre | terrestrēs terrestrīs |
terrestria | |
| Ablative | terrestrī | terrestribus | |||
| Vocative | terrestris | terrestre | terrestrēs | terrestria | |
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References[edit]
- “terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- terrestris 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)
- terrestris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
- geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
- travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “terrestris”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 673