See terra in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "conterrāneus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "extorris"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "*interrō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "mediterrāneus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sublātiō a terra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra alba"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Terra Australis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra firma"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra foliata tartari"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra incognita"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Terra Nova"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra nullius"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terra salsuginis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrārius"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrēnus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrestris"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terreus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terricola"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrigena"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrigenus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "territōrium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrōsus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrula"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrulentus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terruncula"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Sardinian",
"lang_code": "sc",
"word": "terra"
}
],
"lang": "Insular Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Aromanian",
"lang_code": "rup",
"word": "tsarã"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"word": "țară"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"word": "țeară"
}
],
"lang": "Balkano-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Gallurese",
"lang_code": "sdn",
"word": "tarra"
},
{
"lang": "Sassarese",
"lang_code": "sdc",
"word": "terra"
}
],
"lang": "Corsican",
"lang_code": "co",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Dalmatian",
"lang_code": "dlm",
"word": "tara"
},
{
"lang": "Dalmatian",
"lang_code": "dlm",
"word": "tiara"
},
{
"lang": "Istriot",
"lang_code": "ist",
"word": "tiera"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "tierra"
},
{
"lang": "Judeo-Italian",
"lang_code": "itk",
"roman": "ṭerah",
"word": "טֵירַה"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Tarantino",
"lang_code": "roa-tar",
"word": "terre"
}
],
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"lang_code": "nap",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Sicilian",
"lang_code": "scn",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Venetan",
"lang_code": "vec",
"word": "tera"
}
],
"lang": "Italo-Dalmatian",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Friulian",
"lang_code": "fur",
"word": "tiere"
},
{
"lang": "Ladin",
"lang_code": "lld",
"word": "tera"
},
{
"lang": "Ladin",
"lang_code": "lld",
"word": "tiera"
},
{
"lang": "Romansh",
"lang_code": "rm",
"word": "tiara"
},
{
"lang": "Romansh",
"lang_code": "rm",
"word": "terra"
}
],
"lang": "Rhaeto-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Emilian",
"lang_code": "egl",
"word": "tèra"
},
{
"lang": "Ligurian",
"lang_code": "lij",
"word": "tæra"
},
{
"lang": "Ligurian",
"lang_code": "lij",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Lombard",
"lang_code": "lmo",
"word": "tera"
},
{
"lang": "Piedmontese",
"lang_code": "pms",
"word": "tèra"
}
],
"lang": "Gallo-Italic",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Franco-Provençal",
"lang_code": "frp",
"word": "tèrra"
},
{
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"word": "terre"
}
],
"lang": "Northern Gallo-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"word": "tèrra"
}
],
"lang": "Old Occitan",
"lang_code": "pro",
"word": "terra"
}
],
"lang": "Southern Gallo-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Aragonese",
"lang_code": "an",
"word": "tierra"
},
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "tierra"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"word": "terra"
}
],
"lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
"lang_code": "roa-opt",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Ladino",
"lang_code": "lad",
"word": "tierra"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "tierra"
}
],
"lang": "Old Spanish",
"lang_code": "osp",
"word": "tierra"
}
],
"lang": "Ibero-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "tero"
}
],
"lang": "Borrowings",
"lang_code": "unknown"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "itc-pro:*terzā",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *ters-der.\nProto-Italic *terzā\nLatin terra\n[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*ters-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*terzā\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"terra\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"terra\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*terzā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *terzā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "",
"4": "*ters-eh₂"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "torreō"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of torreō",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "τέρσομαι"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "tír"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish tír",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "तृषा",
"tr": "tṛ́ṣā"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit तृषा (tṛ́ṣā)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "thirst"
},
"expansion": "English thirst",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "þurst",
"ng": "whence English <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">thirst</i>"
},
"expansion": "Old English þurst (whence English thirst)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "χέρσος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos)",
"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *ters-der.\nProto-Italic *terzā\nLatin terra\nFrom Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”). Doublet of torreō. Cognate with Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit तृषा (tṛ́ṣā), Old English þurst (whence English thirst). Compare the semantics of Ancient Greek Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "terrae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "terra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrārum",
"links": [
[
"terrārum",
"terrarum#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrīs",
"links": [
[
"terrīs",
"terris#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrās",
"links": [
[
"terrās",
"terras#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terrā",
"links": [
[
"terrā",
"terra#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrīs",
"links": [
[
"terrīs",
"terris#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "terrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "terra<1>"
},
"expansion": "terra f (genitive terrae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "terra<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "atterrāneus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "exterrāneus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "exterrēnus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "mediterreus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "subterrāneus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "subterrēnus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "subterreus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrāneola"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrārium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "territōriālis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "terrulentē"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth)"
],
"id": "en-terra-la-noun-6ex2lOKH",
"links": [
[
"dry land",
"dry land"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"ground, floor (the surface of the land)"
],
"id": "en-terra-la-noun-MQHEyQE1",
"links": [
[
"ground",
"ground"
],
[
"floor",
"floor"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "humus"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 4 31 25 7 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nFor the rest, whate'er\nThe sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon\nStrew refuse rich, and with abundant earth\nTake heed to hide them, and dig in withal\nRough shells or porous stone, for therebetween\nWill water trickle and fine vapour creep,\nAnd so the plants their drooping spirits raise.\nAye, and there have been, who with weight of stone\nOr heavy potsherd press them from above;\nThis serves for shield in pelting showers, and this\nWhen the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353",
"roman": "hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit Canis aestifer arva.",
"text": "Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros\nsparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,\naut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;\ninter enim labentur aquae, tenuisque subibit\nhalitus, atque animos tollent sata. Iamque reperti\nqui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae\nurgerent: hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,",
"translation": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nFor the rest, whate'er\nThe sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon\nStrew refuse rich, and with abundant earth\nTake heed to hide them, and dig in withal\nRough shells or porous stone, for therebetween\nWill water trickle and fine vapour creep,\nAnd so the plants their drooping spirits raise.\nAye, and there have been, who with weight of stone\nOr heavy potsherd press them from above;\nThis serves for shield in pelting showers, and this\nWhen the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"earth, soil, dirt, clay, clod (the substance generally composing the dry land)"
],
"id": "en-terra-la-noun-~seQ82IH",
"links": [
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"soil",
"soil"
],
[
"dirt",
"dirt"
],
[
"clay",
"clay"
],
[
"clod",
"clod"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "solum"
},
{
"word": "tellūs"
},
{
"word": "humus"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 4 31 25 7 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nQuick, it’s a long way! I’ll be alive here at the end\nof the earth, in a land that’s far away from my land.\n(The poet writes from exile.)",
"ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.127–128",
"roman": "ultimus, ā terrā terra remōta meā.",
"text": "Longa via est, properā! nōbīs habitābitur orbis",
"translation": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nQuick, it’s a long way! I’ll be alive here at the end\nof the earth, in a land that’s far away from my land.\n(The poet writes from exile.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Translation by King James Version\n[…] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]",
"ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Daniel 1:2",
"text": "[…]et asportavit ea in terram Sennaar in domum dei sui[…]",
"translation": "Translation by King James Version\n[…] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"land, country, region, territory (any given area of dry land)"
],
"id": "en-terra-la-noun-uwYNZtXT",
"links": [
[
"land",
"land"
],
[
"country",
"country"
],
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"territory",
"territory"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.4.105–110",
"text": "[Agorastocles] Quaeso, qui lubet tam diu tenere collum?\nOmitte saltem tu altera. Nolo ego istuc. [Adelphasium] Enicas me.\nPrius quam tibi desponderit. [Agorastocles] Mitto. [Adelphasium] Sperate, salve.\n[Hanno] Condamus alter alterum ergo in nervom bracchialem.\nQuibus nunc in terra melius est? [Agorastocles] Eveniunt digna dignis.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nEvery species on earth, man and creature, and the species\nof the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,\nrush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon III",
"roman": "in furias ignemque ruunt: amor omnibus idem.",
"text": "Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque\net genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque volucres,",
"translation": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nEvery species on earth, man and creature, and the species\nof the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,\nrush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)"
],
"id": "en-terra-la-noun-dVDWJC-s",
"links": [
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"entire",
"entire#English"
],
[
"surface",
"surface#English"
],
[
"Earth",
"Earth#English"
],
[
"heavens",
"heavens#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly in the plural) earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"in-plural"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "8 4 24 21 8 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 5 27 14 5 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 2 25 26 8 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 12 14 22 17 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 4 31 25 7 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 4 25 24 7 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 0 31 12 0 56",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Nature",
"orig": "la:Nature",
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},
{
"_dis": "18 0 14 0 30 38",
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"parents": [],
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"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.17.40",
"text": "[…]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[…]\nTranslation by Charles Duke Yonge\n[…] 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 […]",
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[
"Earth",
"Earth"
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[
"globe",
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[
"world",
"world"
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"la:Q2"
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"Q2"
]
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"ipa": "[ˈtɛr.ra]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈtɛr.ra]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "terra"
}
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
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"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 16 entries",
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"la:Nature"
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"word": "conterrāneus"
},
{
"word": "extorris"
},
{
"word": "*interrō"
},
{
"word": "mediterrāneus"
},
{
"word": "sublātiō a terra"
},
{
"word": "terra alba"
},
{
"word": "Terra Australis"
},
{
"word": "terra firma"
},
{
"word": "terra foliata tartari"
},
{
"word": "terra incognita"
},
{
"word": "Terra Nova"
},
{
"word": "terra nullius"
},
{
"word": "terra salsuginis"
},
{
"word": "terrārius"
},
{
"word": "terrēnus"
},
{
"word": "terrestris"
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{
"word": "terreus"
},
{
"word": "terricola"
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{
"word": "terrigena"
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{
"word": "terrigenus"
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{
"word": "territōrium"
},
{
"word": "terrōsus"
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{
"word": "terrula"
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{
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{
"word": "terruncula"
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"lang_code": "sc",
"word": "terra"
}
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"lang_code": "unknown"
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"lang": "Aromanian",
"lang_code": "rup",
"word": "tsarã"
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{
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"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"word": "țară"
}
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"lang_code": "unknown"
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"word": "tarra"
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{
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"word": "terra"
}
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"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Dalmatian",
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"word": "tara"
},
{
"lang": "Dalmatian",
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"word": "tiara"
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{
"lang": "Istriot",
"lang_code": "ist",
"word": "tiera"
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{
"lang": "Italian",
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"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "tierra"
},
{
"lang": "Judeo-Italian",
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"roman": "ṭerah",
"word": "טֵירַה"
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{
"lang": "Tarantino",
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"word": "terre"
}
],
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"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Sicilian",
"lang_code": "scn",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Venetan",
"lang_code": "vec",
"word": "tera"
}
],
"lang": "Italo-Dalmatian",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
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"lang": "Friulian",
"lang_code": "fur",
"word": "tiere"
},
{
"lang": "Ladin",
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"word": "tera"
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{
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"lang": "Romansh",
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"lang": "Romansh",
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{
"lang": "Lombard",
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{
"lang": "Piedmontese",
"lang_code": "pms",
"word": "tèra"
}
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"lang_code": "unknown"
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"lang": "Franco-Provençal",
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}
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"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"word": "terra"
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"lang": "Occitan",
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"word": "tèrra"
}
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"word": "terra"
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"lang": "Southern Gallo-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
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"lang": "Aragonese",
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"word": "tierra"
},
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "tierra"
},
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{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "terra"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"word": "terra"
}
],
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{
"lang": "Ladino",
"lang_code": "lad",
"word": "tierra"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "tierra"
}
],
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"lang_code": "osp",
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}
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}
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"lang_code": "unknown"
}
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"tr": "tṛ́ṣā"
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},
{
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},
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{
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"1": "ang",
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "grc",
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},
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"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *ters-der.\nProto-Italic *terzā\nLatin terra\nFrom Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”). Doublet of torreō. Cognate with Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit तृषा (tṛ́ṣā), Old English þurst (whence English thirst). Compare the semantics of Ancient Greek Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "terrae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
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},
{
"form": "terra",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "terrae",
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},
{
"form": "terrae",
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"singular"
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},
{
"form": "terrārum",
"links": [
[
"terrārum",
"terrarum#Latin"
]
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"genitive",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "terrae",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
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{
"form": "terrīs",
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[
"terrīs",
"terris#Latin"
]
],
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"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "terrās",
"links": [
[
"terrās",
"terras#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "terrā",
"links": [
[
"terrā",
"terra#Latin"
]
],
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"ablative",
"singular"
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},
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[
"terrīs",
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]
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"plural"
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},
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"form": "terra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
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"form": "terrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
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"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "atterrāneus"
},
{
"word": "exterrāneus"
},
{
"word": "exterrēnus"
},
{
"word": "mediterreus"
},
{
"word": "subterrāneus"
},
{
"word": "subterrēnus"
},
{
"word": "subterreus"
},
{
"word": "terrāneola"
},
{
"word": "terrārium"
},
{
"word": "territōriālis"
},
{
"word": "terrulentē"
}
],
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{
"glosses": [
"dry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth)"
],
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[
"dry land",
"dry land"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"ground, floor (the surface of the land)"
],
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[
"ground",
"ground"
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[
"floor",
"floor"
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],
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{
"word": "humus"
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"english": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nFor the rest, whate'er\nThe sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon\nStrew refuse rich, and with abundant earth\nTake heed to hide them, and dig in withal\nRough shells or porous stone, for therebetween\nWill water trickle and fine vapour creep,\nAnd so the plants their drooping spirits raise.\nAye, and there have been, who with weight of stone\nOr heavy potsherd press them from above;\nThis serves for shield in pelting showers, and this\nWhen the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353",
"roman": "hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit Canis aestifer arva.",
"text": "Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros\nsparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,\naut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;\ninter enim labentur aquae, tenuisque subibit\nhalitus, atque animos tollent sata. Iamque reperti\nqui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae\nurgerent: hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,",
"translation": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nFor the rest, whate'er\nThe sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon\nStrew refuse rich, and with abundant earth\nTake heed to hide them, and dig in withal\nRough shells or porous stone, for therebetween\nWill water trickle and fine vapour creep,\nAnd so the plants their drooping spirits raise.\nAye, and there have been, who with weight of stone\nOr heavy potsherd press them from above;\nThis serves for shield in pelting showers, and this\nWhen the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"earth, soil, dirt, clay, clod (the substance generally composing the dry land)"
],
"links": [
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"soil",
"soil"
],
[
"dirt",
"dirt"
],
[
"clay",
"clay"
],
[
"clod",
"clod"
]
],
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{
"word": "solum"
},
{
"word": "tellūs"
},
{
"word": "humus"
}
],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
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"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nQuick, it’s a long way! I’ll be alive here at the end\nof the earth, in a land that’s far away from my land.\n(The poet writes from exile.)",
"ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.127–128",
"roman": "ultimus, ā terrā terra remōta meā.",
"text": "Longa via est, properā! nōbīs habitābitur orbis",
"translation": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nQuick, it’s a long way! I’ll be alive here at the end\nof the earth, in a land that’s far away from my land.\n(The poet writes from exile.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Translation by King James Version\n[…] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]",
"ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Daniel 1:2",
"text": "[…]et asportavit ea in terram Sennaar in domum dei sui[…]",
"translation": "Translation by King James Version\n[…] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"land, country, region, territory (any given area of dry land)"
],
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[
"land",
"land"
],
[
"country",
"country"
],
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"territory",
"territory"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.4.105–110",
"text": "[Agorastocles] Quaeso, qui lubet tam diu tenere collum?\nOmitte saltem tu altera. Nolo ego istuc. [Adelphasium] Enicas me.\nPrius quam tibi desponderit. [Agorastocles] Mitto. [Adelphasium] Sperate, salve.\n[Hanno] Condamus alter alterum ergo in nervom bracchialem.\nQuibus nunc in terra melius est? [Agorastocles] Eveniunt digna dignis.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nEvery species on earth, man and creature, and the species\nof the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,\nrush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon III",
"roman": "in furias ignemque ruunt: amor omnibus idem.",
"text": "Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque\net genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque volucres,",
"translation": "Translation by A. S. Kline\nEvery species on earth, man and creature, and the species\nof the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,\nrush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)"
],
"links": [
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"entire",
"entire#English"
],
[
"surface",
"surface#English"
],
[
"Earth",
"Earth#English"
],
[
"heavens",
"heavens#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly in the plural) earth (the entire surface of planet Earth; dry land and sea together, as opposed to the heavens)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"in-plural"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.17.40",
"text": "[…]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[…]\nTranslation by Charles Duke Yonge\n[…] 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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the Earth, the globe, the world (as a celestial object)"
],
"links": [
[
"Earth",
"Earth"
],
[
"globe",
"globe"
],
[
"world",
"world"
]
],
"senseid": [
"la:Q2"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
],
"wikidata": [
"Q2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈtɛr.ra]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈtɛr.ra]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "terra"
}
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