terrain

See also: Terrain and tèrrain

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)

1. (geology) a single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks
2. an area of land or the particular features of it

   The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand.

Synonyms

• ground

Derived terms

• human terrain
• linguistic terrain

 

Translations

area

• Armenian: տեղանք (hy) (teġankʻ)
• Catalan: terreny (ca) m
• Chamicuro: c̈hijta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地域 (zh) (dìyù), 地形 (zh) (dìxíng)

• Czech: terén (cs) m
• Dutch: terrein (nl)
• Esperanto: tereno
• Finnish: maasto (fi)
• French: terrain (fr) m
• Friulian: teren m
• Galician: terreo (gl) m
• German: Terrain (de) n, Gelände (de) n, Land (de) n
• Greek: έδαφος (el) n (édafos), έκταση (el) f (éktasi)
• Hungarian: terep (hu)
• Indonesian: medan (id)
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• Interlingue:
• Italian: terreno (it), tratto (it) m, estensione (it) f, spianata (it) f
• Japanese: 地域 (ja) (ちいき, chiiki), 地形 (ja) (ちけい, chikei)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 지형 (ko) (jihyeong), 지역 (ko) (jiyeok)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: терен m (teren)
• Polish: teren (pl) m
• Portuguese: terreno (pt) m
• Romanian: teren (ro) n
• Russian: ме́стность (ru) f (méstnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐре̄н m

  Roman: tèrēn (sh) m

• Spanish: terreno (es) m
• Thai: ภูมิประเทศ (puu-mí-bprà-têet), ลักษณะภูมิประเทศ

Further reading

• “terrain”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• rantier, retrain, trainer

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French

Etymology

From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrēnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁɛ̃/ ~ /te.ʁɛ̃/

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Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape
2. field (as in soccer field)

   Un nouveau terrain de football a été aménagé l’an dernier. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. lot, plot, parcel

Further reading

• “terrain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• taragn (Sutsilvan)
• teragn (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

   Synonym: (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais