terra

Borrowed from Latin terra. Doublet of terrier.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹə
• Homophone: terror (non-rhotic accents)

terra (plural terras or terrae)

1. A continent or large landmass, e.g. Arabia Terra or Aphrodite Terra.
2. A Lunar highland or mountainous region with a relatively high albedo, e.g. Terra Nivium.

• Arter, arrêt, arter, rater, retar, tarre

Inherited from Old Catalan terra, from Latin terra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɛ.ra]

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terra f (plural terres)

1. earth
2. land

terra m (plural terres)

1. ground

• “terra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “terra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “terra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “terra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• tarra

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terza. Cognates include Italian terra and French terre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrːa/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ra
• Rhymes: -ɛrːa

terra f (plural terre)

1. earth
2. land
3. soil

• Gallurese: tarra

• “terra, tarra” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

terra

1. illative singular of tera

From Old Norse þerra.

terra (third person singular past indicative terraði, third person plural past indicative terraðu, supine terrað)

1. to dry

• torna, turka

• fukta, slaga, væta

terra

1. third-person singular past historic of terrer

• arrêt, errât, rater

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra. Cognate with Portuguese terra, Catalan terra, and Spanish tierra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛra̝/

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terra f (plural terras)

1. soil, earth
2. land, country
3. (in the plural) real estate possesions or heritage

• soterrar
• terreo
• territorio

• Terra

• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “terra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “terra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “terra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrra
• Hyphenation: tèr‧ra

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

terra f (plural terre)

1. ground
2. (colloquial, atechnical synonym of suolo (“terreno”, “soil”)) soil

   Synonyms: suolo, terreno

From Terra (“Earth”).

terra f (plural terre)

1. (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Terra) planet

   Synonym: pianeta

• geo-
• luna
• mondo
• sole

From Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

Cognate with torreō, Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛ́ṣyati), Old English þurst (English thirst). Compare the semantics of Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛrːä]

terra f (genitive terrae); first declension

1. dry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth)
2. ground, floor (the surface of the land)

   Synonym: humus

3. earth, soil, dirt, clay, clod (the substance generally composing the dry land)

   Synonyms: solum, tellūs, humus

4. land, country, region, territory (any given area of dry land)
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.127–128:

     nōbīs habitābitur orbis ultimus, ā terrā terra remōta meā.

     The end of the world will be my dwelling, a land far removed from my land.
     (The poet writes from exile.)

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Daniel 1:2:

     et asportavit ea in terram sennaar in domvm dei svi […]

     […] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]

5. earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics III:

     omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
     et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
     in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt

     So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
     whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
     collapse into the frenzies and the fire [of sex].

6. the Earth, the globe, the world (as a celestial object)
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.17.40:

     num igitur dubitamus—? an sicut pleraque? quamquam hoc quidem minime; persuadent enim mathematici terram in medio mundo sitam ad universi caeli complexum quasi puncti instar optinere, quod κέντρον illi vocant...

     Do we, then, doubt, as we do in other cases (though I think here is very little room for doubt in this case, for the mathematicians prove the facts to us), that the earth is placed in the midst of the universe, being, as it were, a sort of point, which they call a κέντρον, surrounded by the whole heavens...

The use of terra to describe the globe as a heavenly body was already established in antiquity, but in New Latin, as the Earth became more indistinguishable from other planets, it gradually came to be treated as a proper noun (see Terra). The English Earth underwent this same transition.

First-declension noun.

• “terra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• terra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the earth; the glob: orbis terrae, terrarum
    
  • the continent: (terra) continens (B. G. 5. 8. 2)
    
  • an inland region; the interior: terra (regio) mediterranea
    
  • the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
    
  • the earth brings forth fruit abundantly: terra fundit fruges
    
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit
    
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae e terra gignuntur
    
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur
    
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26)
    
  • the atmosphere: aer terrae circumiectus or circumfusus
    
  • the atmosphere: aer qui est terrae proximus
    
  • a zone: orbis, pars (terrae), cingulus
    
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
    
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae
    
  • to have the same boundaries; to be coterminous: continentem esse terrae or cum terra (Fam. 15. 2. 2)
    
  • the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
    
  • the most distant countries, the world's end: ultimae terrae
    
  • the most distant countries, the world's end: extremae terrae partes
    
  • to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    
  • to travel through the most remote countries: disiunctissimas ultimas terras peragrare (not permigrare)
    
  • to fall to the earth: in terram cadere, decidere
    
  • to sink into the earth: in terram demergi
    
  • to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
    
  • geography: terrarum or regionum descriptio (geographia)
    
  • to conquer a country: terra potiri
    
  • to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: terram suae dicionis facere
    
  • to make oneself master of a people, country: populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (not sibi by itself)
    
  • to disembark troops: milites in terram, in terra exponere
    
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
  • to land (of people): appellere navem (ad terram, litus)
    
  • to land, disembark: exire, egredi in terram
    
  • to be unable to land: portu, terra prohiberi (B. C. 3. 15)
    
• “terra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “terra”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• errat

Inherited from Latin terra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrrə/

terra f (plural terre)

1. land

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1623: “cade bocconi (colla pancia in terra)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”).

terra f (oblique plural terras, nominative singular terra, nominative plural terras)

1. land

• terrassa

• Occitan: tèrra

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ha/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra.

terra f (plural terras)

1. land; region; territory (area associated with something)

   Cuidado, essa é a terra dos caçadores de cabeças.

   Be careful, that is the land of the headhunters.

2. ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings)

   Deixa essa pedra na terra.

   Leave that rock on the ground.

3. land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone)

   Compramos uma terra para criar gado.

   We bought land to raise cattle.

4. (sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water)

   Após meses de viagem, finalmente chegaram em terra.

   After months of travel, they finally arrived on land.

5. earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground)

   A camisa está suja de terra.

   The shirt is dirty with soil.

6. land; homeland

   Lá na minha terra tem muitas capivaras.

   There are a lot of capybaras in my homeland.

• (region): região, território
• (ground): chão, solo
• (property): terreno
• (dry land): terra firme
• (homeland): terra natal, terrinha

• terrinha (diminutive)

terra f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Terra

terra

1. inflection of terrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Terra

• tiara (Sursilvan)

From Latin terra.

terra f (plural terras)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) land, soil
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) country, land
3. (capitalized, proper noun, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) the planet Earth

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais
• (Sutsilvan) pajis
• (Surmiran) paeis
• (Puter) terrain

From Latin terra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʐʐa/, /ˈtɛrra/
• Hyphenation: tèr‧ra

terra f (plural terri)

1. land
2. earth
3. soil
4. ground

• tirritòriu
• tirrazzu
• tirrenu