terabyte

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English tera-

English byte

English terabyte

From tera- + byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/, [ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tera‧byte

Noun

terabyte (plural terabytes)

1. One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
2. (computing, informal) A tebibyte.

Synonyms

• TB

Derived terms

• multiterabyte
• subterabyte

Coordinate terms

• Previous: gigabyte
• Next: petabyte

Related terms

• tebibit
• tebibyte
• terabit

Translations

1,000,000,000,000 bytes

• Arabic: تِيرَابَايْت m (tirabayt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 太字節 / 太字节 (tàizìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) TB (zh)

• Czech: terabajt m, terabyte m
• Esperanto: terabajto, terabitoko
• Finnish: teratavu (fi)
• French: téraoctet (fr) m
• Georgian: ტერაბაიტი (ṭerabaiṭi)
• German: Terabyte (de) n
• Greek: τεραμπάιτ (el) n (terampáit), τεραδυφιοσυλλαβή n (teradyfiosyllaví)
• Hungarian: terabyte (hu)
• Japanese: テラバイト (ja) (terabaito)
• Korean: 테라바이트 (terabaiteu)
• Macedonian: терабајт m (terabajt)
• Malay: terabait
• Navajo: dlaałtsohʼííłké
• Polish: terabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: terabyte (pt) m
• Russian: тераба́йт (ru) m (tɛrabájt)
• Thai: เทระไบต์ (th)
• Ukrainian: тераба́йт m (terabájt)
• Uyghur: تېرابايت (tërabayt)

Anagrams

• Attebery

Czech

Alternative forms

• terabajt

Etymology

Derived from English terabyte, as if tera- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrabajt]

Noun

terabyte m inan

1. terabyte

Declension

Declension of terabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	terabyte	terabyty
genitive	terabytu	terabytů
dative	terabytu	terabytům
accusative	terabyte	terabyty
vocative	terabyte	terabyty
locative	terabytu	terabytech
instrumental	terabytem	terabyty

Further reading

• “byte”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English terabyte, equivalent to tera- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbajt͡ʃ/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbajt͡ʃ/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbajt͡ʃ/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ], /ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˌtɛ.ɾaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.ɾɐˈbajt/ [ˌtɛ.ɾɐˈβajt]

Noun

terabyte m (plural terabytes)

1. (computing) terabyte (one trillion bytes)

   Synonyms: (symbol) TB, (informal) tera

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• terabit
• tebibyte

Further reading

• “terabyte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “terabyte”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “terabyte”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “terabyte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English terabyte, equivalent to tera- +‎ byte.

Noun

terabyte m (plural terabytes)

1. (computing) terabyte (one trillion bytes)

Further reading

• “terabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025