tere

See also: terë and tërë

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːrə

Adjective

tere

1. Inflected form of teer

Verb

tere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of teren

Anagrams

• eert, eter, reet, teer, tree

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Esperanto

Etymology

tero +‎ -e

Adverb

tere

1. on earth

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Estonian

Interjection

tere

1. hello (A general greeting one can say when meeting somebody, contraction of tervis (“health”))

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Finnish

Noun

tere

1. (textiles) piping

Declension

Inflection of tere (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative		tere	tereet
genitive		tereen	tereiden tereitten
partitive		terettä	tereitä
illative		tereeseen	tereisiin tereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tere	tereet
accusative	nom.	tere	tereet
	gen.	tereen
genitive		tereen	tereiden tereitten
partitive		terettä	tereitä
inessive		tereessä	tereissä
elative		tereestä	tereistä
illative		tereeseen	tereisiin tereihin
adessive		tereellä	tereillä
ablative		tereeltä	tereiltä
allative		tereelle	tereille
essive		tereenä	tereinä
translative		tereeksi	tereiksi
instructive		—	terein
abessive		tereettä	tereittä
comitative		—	tereineen

Compounds

• heijastintere

Anagrams

• reet

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Hungarian

Etymology

tér +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrɛ]
• Hyphenation: te‧re

Noun

tere

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of tér

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tere	—
accusative	terét	—
dative	terének	—
instrumental	terével	—
causal-final	teréért	—
translative	terévé	—
terminative	teréig	—
essive-formal	tereként	—
essive-modal	teréül	—
inessive	terében	—
superessive	terén	—
adessive	terénél	—
illative	terébe	—
sublative	terére	—
allative	teréhez	—
elative	teréből	—
delative	teréről	—
ablative	terétől	—

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Latin

Verb

tere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of terō

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English tēar, tǣr, tæhher, teagor, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą.

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) tær, tear
• (Kentish ME) tyer, tyear, tyar
• teere, ter, teer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛːr/

Noun

tere (plural teres or teren)

2. A tear; an emission of liquid emanating from the eyes:
   1. A tear appearing due to disease or injury.
   2. A tear appearing due to emotion (e.g. sadness, remorse, sympathy, religious joy)
3. A droplet or bit of liquid resembling a teardrop.
4. (figuratively) The feeling of teariness or distress.

Usage notes

This noun usually appears in the plural, which is usually teres; teren is early and rare.

Related terms

• teren
• tery

Descendants

• English: tear
• Scots: tear, tere, teir, tichwr, tychir

References

• “tēr(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

Etymology 2

From Old English teoru.

Noun

tere

1. Alternative form of ter (“tar”)

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch têer.

Noun

tere

1. Alternative form of teere (“good”)

Etymology 4

From Old English teran.

Verb

tere

1. Alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

Etymology 5

From tere (“tear”).

Verb

tere

1. Alternative form of teren (“to cry”)

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Ngazidja Comorian

Noun

tere (noun class 5/6)

1. drop

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Old French

Noun

tere f (oblique plural teres, nominative singular tere, nominative plural teres)

1. Alternative form of terre

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• te, ter

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *teže, from Proto-Slavic *te + *že.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tere/

Conjunction

tere (Cyrillic spelling тере)

1. (Croatia, poetic, archaic) and

Synonyms

• i, te

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Turkish

Noun

tere (definite accusative tereyi, plural tereler)

1. cress

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tere
Definite accusative	tereyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tere	tereler
Definite accusative	tereyi	tereleri
Dative	tereye	terelere
Locative	terede	terelerde
Ablative	tereden	terelerden
Genitive	terenin	terelerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular terem terelerim 2nd singular teren terelerin 3rd singular teresi tereleri 1st plural teremiz terelerimiz 2nd plural tereniz tereleriniz 3rd plural tereleri tereleri

Derived terms

• su teresi

Noun

tere

1. dative singular of ter

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Venetian

Noun

tere

1. plural of tera

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“land, earth, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

tere f (plural teres)

1. earth

Synonyms

• daegn

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Woi

Noun

tere

1. tooth