tero

See also: Tero, teró, and térő

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian terra and French terre, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: te‧ro

Noun

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

1. the earth's surface
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:

     Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.

     Even from underground, the truth appears.

2. soil, ground (substance)
3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
4. (often capitalized) the planet Earth

   Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.

   Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     EN la komenco Dio kreis la ĉielon kaj la teron.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.

Derived terms

• alterigi (“to land”, transitive verb)
• alteriĝi (“to land”, intransitive verb)
• tera (“terrestrial”)
• teramaso (“mound”)
• terano (“Terran”)
• terglobuso (“terrestrial globe”)
• termantelo (“mantle”)
• tertremo (“earthquake”)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tero, French terre, Italian terra, Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

Noun

tero (uncountable)

1. earth

See also

• Tero

Japanese

Romanization

tero

1. Rōmaji transcription of テロ

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).

See also Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”), Danish dreje (“to turn”), Swedish dreja (“to turn”), Albanian dredh (“to turn, twist, tremble”), Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː.ro]

Verb

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation

1. to rub or triturate
2. to wear away or wear out, consume

   Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo

3. to tread
4. to press with a mill
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.519:

     Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
     glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
     et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
     mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
       The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
       The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
       So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up
       On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.

5. (time) to pass, spend

   Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of terō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	terō		teris		terit		terimus		teritis		terunt
	imperfect	terēbam		terēbās		terēbat		terēbāmus		terēbātis		terēbant
	future	teram		terēs		teret		terēmus		terētis		terent
	perfect	trīvī		trīvistī		trīvit		trīvimus		trīvistis		trīvērunt, trīvēre
	pluperfect	trīveram		trīverās		trīverat		trīverāmus		trīverātis		trīverant
	future perfect	trīverō		trīveris		trīverit		trīverimus		trīveritis		trīverint
passive	present	teror		tereris, terere		teritur		terimur		teriminī		teruntur
	imperfect	terēbar		terēbāris, terēbāre		terēbātur		terēbāmur		terēbāminī		terēbantur
	future	terar		terēris, terēre		terētur		terēmur		terēminī		terentur
	perfect	trītus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	trītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	trītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	teram		terās		terat		terāmus		terātis		terant
	imperfect	tererem		tererēs		tereret		tererēmus		tererētis		tererent
	perfect	trīverim		trīverīs		trīverit		trīverīmus		trīverītis		trīverint
	pluperfect	trīvissem		trīvissēs		trīvisset		trīvissēmus		trīvissētis		trīvissent
passive	present	terar		terāris, terāre		terātur		terāmur		terāminī		terantur
	imperfect	tererer		tererēris, tererēre		tererētur		tererēmur		tererēminī		tererentur
	perfect	trītus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	trītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		tere		—		—		terite		—
	future	—		teritō		teritō		—		teritōte		teruntō
passive	present	—		terere		—		—		teriminī		—
	future	—		teritor		teritor		—		—		teruntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		terere			terī			terēns			—
future		trītūrum esse			trītum īrī			trītūrus			terendus, terundus
perfect		trīvisse			trītum esse			—			trītus
future perfect		—			trītum fore			—			—
perfect potential		trītūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		terendī		terendō		terendum		terendō		trītum		trītū

Derived terms

• atterō
• circumterō
• conterō
• dēterō
• exterō
• interō
• obterō
• perterō
• praeterō
• prōterō
• subterō
• terebra
• teres
• trībulum
• trīticum
• trītor
• trītūra
• trītus

Descendants

• English: try

References

• “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "tero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɾo/ [ˈt̪e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: te‧ro

Noun

tero m (plural teros)

1. (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense) clipping of teruteru (“terutero”)

   Synonym: avefría tero

Further reading

• “tero”, 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

Anagrams

• rote, roté, reto

Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.ɾo]

Verb

tero

1. (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɾo/

Verb

tero

1. to hit, to make a hit

Conjugation

Conjugation of tero

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totero	fotero	mitero
2nd person		notero	nitero
3rd person	masculine	otero	itero yotero (archaic)
	feminine	motero
	neuter	itero

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh