tere

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• Rhymes: -eːrə

tere

1. Inflected form of teer

tere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of teren

• eert, eter, reet, teer, tree

tero +‎ -e

tere

1. on earth

tere

1. hello (A general greeting one can say when meeting somebody, contraction of tervis (“health”))

tere

1. (textiles) piping

• heijastintere

• reet

tér +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrɛ]
• Hyphenation: te‧re

tere

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of tér

tere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of terō

From Old English tēar, tǣr, tæhher, teagor, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą.

• (Early ME) tær, tear
• (Kentish ME) tyer, tyear, tyar
• teere, ter, teer

• IPA^(key): /tɛːr/

tere (plural teres or teren)

1. A tear; an emission of liquid emanating from the eyes:
   1. A tear appearing due to disease or injury.
   2. A tear appearing due to emotion (e.g. sadness, remorse, sympathy, religious joy)
2. A droplet or bit of liquid resembling a teardrop.
3. (figuratively) The feeling of teariness or distress.

This noun usually appears in the plural, which is usually teres; teren is early and rare.

• teren
• tery

• English: tear
• Scots: tear, tere, teir, tichwr, tychir

• “tēr(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

From Old English teoru.

tere

1. Alternative form of ter (“tar”)

From Middle Dutch têer.

tere

1. Alternative form of teere (“good”)

From Old English teran.

tere

1. Alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

From tere (“tear”).

tere

1. Alternative form of teren (“to cry”)

tere (noun class 5/6)

1. drop

tere f (oblique plural teres, nominative singular tere, nominative plural teres)

1. Alternative form of terre

• te, ter

From Proto-Slavic *teže, from Proto-Slavic *te + *že.

• IPA^(key): /tere/

tere (Cyrillic spelling тере)

1. (Croatia, poetic, archaic) and

• i, te

tere (definite accusative tereyi, plural tereler)

1. cress

• su teresi

tere

1. dative singular of ter

tere

1. plural of tera

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

tere f (plural teres)

1. earth

• daegn

tere

1. tooth