terre

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /tɛʁ/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): [taɛ̯ʁ]

  • Audio; [tæɛ̯ʁ̥]:

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [tæ(ɾ)]
• Homophones: taire, terrent, terres
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

1. earth; soil
2. land, property (delimited area)

Verb

terre

1. inflection of terrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Noun

terre f pl

1. plural of terra

Verb

terrē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of terreō

Noun

terre

1. Alternative form of ter

Etymology

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”).

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

1. earth; soil
2. land, property (delimited area)

Noun

terre

1. plural of terra

Alternative forms

• tèrre (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”).

Noun

terre f (plural terres)

1. (Guernsey) earth, ground

Etymology

From Old Norse þorri. Cognate with Icelandic þorri

Noun

terre m (definite singular terrin)

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) a period between January 13 and February 11, same as torre

See also

• gjøa
• kvine

References

• O. Havdal (1968) Meldal bygdebok: Bygdesoga til ikring 1700.

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrə/

Noun

terre oblique singular, f (oblique plural terres, nominative singular terre, nominative plural terres)

1. earth, soil
2. land, property (delimited area)

Verb

terre

1. inflection of terrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Noun

terre

1. earth