Esperanto

Tero

Proper noun

Tero ‎(accusative Teron)

1. Earth (planet)

Hypernyms

• planedo ‎(“planet”)

See also

• (planets of the solar system) planedo de la sunsistemo; Merkuro, Venuso, Tero, Marso, Jupitero, Saturno, Urano, Neptuno

Finnish

Etymology

Eastern Finnish form of the Russian saint's name Терентий ‎(Terentij), cognate to English Terence. In western Finland, short form of Antero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/
• Hyphenation: Te‧ro

Proper noun

Tero

1. A male given name.
   • 1840 Kanteletar:1:220 Ken Teron tietää? :

     Ken Teron tietää? —

     Mie Teron tieän:

     Tero pikku pirttisessä,

     matalaisessa majassa,

   • 2013 Minna Lindgren, Kuolema Ehtoolehdossa, Teos, ISBN 978-951-851-659-3, page 8:

     Sinähän niin pidät Terosta, Siiri. Oliko hänen nimensä Tero vai Pasi? Oletteko huomanneet, että nuorten miesten nimet ovat nykyään tällaisia kirveeniskuja: Tero, Pasi, Vesa, Tomi.

Declension

Anagrams

• erot

Ido

Proper noun

Tero

1. Earth

See also

• tero
• (planets of the solar system) planeti di la sunala sistemo; Merkuro, Venuso, Tero, Marso, Jupitero, Saturno, Urano, Neptuno

Esperanto

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• tera ‎(“terrestrial”)
• terano ‎(“Terran”)
• terglobuso ‎(“terrestrial globe”)
• tertremo ‎(“earthquake”)

Ido

Proper noun

tero

1. earth

See also

• Tero

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    

Spanish

Noun

tero m ‎(plural teros)

1. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) terutero