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tero

See also: Tero, teró, and térő

Esperanto

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtero]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ero
  • Hyphenation: te‧ro

Noun

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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.

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Ido

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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tero (uncountable)

  1. earth

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Japanese

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Romanization

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tero

  1. Rōmaji transcription of テロ

Latin

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Etymology

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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”).

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Verb

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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. (time) to pass, spend
    Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

Conjugation

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   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

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References

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  • “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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • "tero", 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)
  • tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tero m (plural teros)

  1. (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense) Clipping of teruteru (“terutero”).
    Synonym: avefría tero

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Tabaru

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tero

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

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  • 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

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Verb

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tero

  1. to hit, to make a hit

Conjugation

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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

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