terreo

See also: térreo

Galician

Alternative forms

• tarrén, tarreo, tarreu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese terreo, from Latin terrēnus, from Proto-Italic *terzeznos, from *terzos + *-nos. Cognate with Portuguese terreno and Spanish terreno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈreo/ [t̪ɛˈre.ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eo

Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)

1. ground

   Synonym: chan

2. terrain; plot; field

   Synonyms: campo, herdade, leira, predio

   • 1812, Ramón González Serna, Carta Recomendada:

     é ó mesmo que tornar os paxaros de un tarreo para que non coman ó grao, é deixar ó mesmo tempo portelos abertos para que ó coman os porcos

     it is the same as driving away the birds from a terrain so that they don't eat the grain, and then leaving the gates open for the pigs to do it

Adjective

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terreos, feminine plural terreas)

1. earthen

References

• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “terreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “terreo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “terreo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terreus (“earthy”). By surface analysis, terr(a) (“ground, earth”) +‎ -eo (“-ous”, derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.re.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛrreo
• Hyphenation: tèr‧re‧o

Adjective

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terrei, feminine plural terree)

1. (rare) earthy; resembling ground or soil
2. (by extension, usually referred to the face) pale, ashen

Anagrams

• retore, torere

Latin

Etymology

From *tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *troseō, from Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti, causative from *tres- (“to tremble”), extended form of Proto-Indo-European *ter-.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬭𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (trər^əsaⁱti), Ancient Greek τρέω (tréō), Old Irish tarrach, Lithuanian trišu, Latvian trisēt, Old Church Slavonic трѧсти (tręsti), Sanskrit त्रसति (trasati). See also tremō, trepidus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.re.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.re.o]

Verb

terreō (present infinitive terrēre, perfect active terruī, supine territum); second conjugation

1. to frighten, terrify, alarm

   Synonyms: perterreō, exterreō, conterreō, dēterreō, absterreō, exciō, cōnsternō

   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annals (Doubtful Fragments) 3:

     dic quaeso num te illa terrent: triceps apud inferos Cerberus, Cocyti fremitus, transvectio Acherontis

     Please tell me whether these things frighten you: Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the Underworld; the roar of Cocytus; or the crossing of the Acheron.

2. to deter by terror, scare (away)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 2.45.1:

     Memoria pessimi proximo bello exempli terrebat ne rem committerent eo ubi duae simul acies timendae essent

     The memory of a most foul example set during the last war deterred them from commencing battle at a location where they must fear two armies at once

Conjugation

   Conjugation of terreō (second conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	terreō		terrēs		terret		terrēmus		terrētis		terrent
	imperfect	terrēbam		terrēbās		terrēbat		terrēbāmus		terrēbātis		terrēbant
	future	terrēbō		terrēbis		terrēbit		terrēbimus		terrēbitis		terrēbunt
	perfect	terruī		terruistī		terruit		terruimus		terruistis		terruērunt, terruēre
	pluperfect	terrueram		terruerās		terruerat		terruerāmus		terruerātis		terruerant
	future perfect	terruerō		terrueris		terruerit		terruerimus		terrueritis		terruerint
passive	present	terreor		terrēris, terrēre		terrētur		terrēmur		terrēminī		terrentur
	imperfect	terrēbar		terrēbāris, terrēbāre		terrēbātur		terrēbāmur		terrēbāminī		terrēbantur
	future	terrēbor		terrēberis, terrēbere		terrēbitur		terrēbimur		terrēbiminī		terrēbuntur
	perfect	territus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	territus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	territus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	terream		terreās		terreat		terreāmus		terreātis		terreant
	imperfect	terrērem		terrērēs		terrēret		terrērēmus		terrērētis		terrērent
	perfect	terruerim		terruerīs		terruerit		terruerīmus		terruerītis		terruerint
	pluperfect	terruissem		terruissēs		terruisset		terruissēmus		terruissētis		terruissent
passive	present	terrear		terreāris, terreāre		terreātur		terreāmur		terreāminī		terreantur
	imperfect	terrērer		terrērēris, terrērēre		terrērētur		terrērēmur		terrērēminī		terrērentur
	perfect	territus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	territus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		terrē		—		—		terrēte		—
	future	—		terrētō		terrētō		—		terrētōte		terrentō
passive	present	—		terrēre		—		—		terrēminī		—
	future	—		terrētor		terrētor		—		—		terrentor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		terrēre			terrērī			terrēns			—
future		territūrum esse			territum īrī			territūrus			terrendus
perfect		terruisse			territum esse			—			territus
future perfect		—			territum fore			—			—
perfect potential		territūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		terrendī		terrendō		terrendum		terrendō		territum		territū

Derived terms

• absterreō
• conterreō
• dēterreō
• exterreō
• perterreō
• prōterreō
• terribilis
• terricula
• terrificus
• terriloquus
• terrisonus
• territiō
• territō
• territor
• territus
• terror

References

• “terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “terreo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tarreo, terrẽo, terreno

Etymology

Inherited from Latin terrēnus, from Proto-Italic *terzeznos, from *terzos + *-nos.

Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)

1. (uncountable) ground
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 556:

     Outrosy mandamos que o dicto martin bezerra et sua moller façan outra porta a a dicta casa noua en a outra quadra via de de çima en o chaao, et que non aia altura nehuna do terreo, et que seia ancha tanto por que posa entrar longura de hun tonel a traues, et de altura por que posa entrar un ome ençima de hun caualo, et que non seia ferrada de ferro, saluo palmelas et golfoos pertenesçentes.

     Otherwise, we command that the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should made another gate in this new house, in the other square, in the ground level, which should not have any elevation over the ground; it should be wide enough to enter a barrel in long, and high enough for a mounted man, and it should have not iron reinforcements with the exception of the needed leaves and pins [of the hinges]

2. terrain; plot; field
   • 1413, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 140:

     et outros dous terreos na cortiña do Torno, que jaz hun deles a caron d'outro de Rodrigo Ares da Presa

     and another two plots in the garden of Torno; one of them alongside another one which belongs to Rodrigo Ares da Presa

3. land (real estate or landed property)

Descendants

• Fala: terrenu
• Galician: terreo, tarrén, tarreo, tarreu
• Portuguese: terreno (see there for further descendants)

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “terreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “terreo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “terreo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega