terre

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

French

Etymology

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

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Europe" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tɛʁ/
    • Audio (France, Paris), IPA : [tɛ:ʁ]:(file)
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Canada" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [taɛ̯ʁ]
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Louisiana" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [tæ(ɾ)]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophones: taire, terrent, terres
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

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

Derived terms

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Verb

terre

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

Further reading

Italian

Noun

terre f pl

  1. plural of terra

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) terrē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of terreō

Middle English

Noun

terre

  1. Alternative form of ter

Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

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

Neapolitan

Noun

terre

  1. plural of terra

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

  1. (Guernsey) earth, ground

Old French

Etymology

From Latin terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Descendants

  • Middle French: terre

Tarantino

Noun

terre

  1. earth
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