tero

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/
• Hyphenation: te‧ro
• Rhymes: -ero
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tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

1. (often capitalized) the planet Earth

   Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.

   Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

2. the earth's surface
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:

     Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.

     Even from underground, the truth appears.

3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

tero (uncountable)

1. earth

• Tero

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.roː/, [ˈtɛ.roː]

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation

1. I rub or triturate
2. I wear away or wear out
3. I tread

• 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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɾo/, [ˈt̪eɾo]

tero m (plural teros)

1. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) teru-tero