terrasse
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Noun
[edit]terrasse (plural terrasses)
- (Quebec English) Terrace, patio.
- (heraldry) A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.
Verb
[edit]terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)
- To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
- 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:
- However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.
- 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:
- Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French terrasse (“terrace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]terrasse c (singular definite terrassen, plural indefinite terrasser)
- terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
- (heraldry) compartment
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | terrasse | terrassen | terrasser | terrasserne |
genitive | terrasses | terrassens | terrassers | terrassernes |
Related terms
[edit]- terrassere (verb)
- terrassevin c
Further reading
[edit]- “terrasse” in Den Danske Ordbog
terrasse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From terre, probably influenced by Old Occitan terrassa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]terrasse f (plural terrasses)
Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: terrasse
- → German: Terrasse
- → Italian: terrazza
- → Polish: taras
- → Romanian: terasă
- → Turkish: teras
Verb
[edit]terrasse
Verb
[edit]terrasse
- inflection of terrasser:
Further reading
[edit]- “terrasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrasser, definite plural terrassene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “terrasse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.
Noun
[edit]terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrassar, definite plural terrassane)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “terrasse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]terrasse
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