ter

ter

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Terêna.

• ter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

ter

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.
   • 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:

     "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

   • 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV:

     ‘Do you mean ter tell me,’ he growled at the Dursleys, ‘that this boy – this boy! – knows nothin’ abou’ – about ANYTHING?’

ter

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.
   • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna‎^[5], L.C. Page, →OCLC:

     "But he never speaks ter anybody, child—he hain't for years, I guess, except when he just has to, for business, and all that."

   • 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV:

     ‘What about that tea then, eh?’ he said, rubbing his hands together. ‘I’d not say no ter summat stronger if yeh’ve got it, mind.’

ter (not comparable)

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.

• ERT, ETR, Ret., ert, ret

ter

1. river

• IPA^(key): /teɾ/, [tɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ

From Proto-Albanian *taura, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

ter m (plural tera, definite teri, definite plural terat)

1. bull

   Synonyms: dem, mëzat, taroç

ter

1. uncastrated

   Synonym: i patredhur

   dem ter ― uncastrated bull

• taroç
• terak

From Proto-Albanian *tarsja, from *torseje, from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti (“to make dry”), from *ters- (“dry”). Cognate to Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛṣyati), Latin torreo, Old Norse þerra.^[1]

ter (aorist tera, participle terur)

1. (transitive) to dry, dry off

   Synonym: thaj

• terë
• term
• shter
  • shterë
  • shteroj

• djerr

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[6], 1980
• “ter”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “ter”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 513

ter

1. devastated, ruined
2. disabled

Contraction of te +‎ der (“the”, dative singular feminine). Compare German zur.

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ter

1. for, for the (followed by a feminine singular noun, e.g., one ending in -ing)

   Stichting ter Bevordering van de Duiksport

   Foundation for the Advancement of Scubadiving

2. in the

   De Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is de oudste universiteit van de Nederlanden en tevens de oudste nog bestaande katholieke universiteit ter wereld.

   The Catholic University of Leuven is the oldest university of the Low Countries and also the oldest still existing catholic university in the world.

Like ten, ter occurs mostly in fixed idiomatic expressions, while voor and in (+ de/het) are the standard. With feminine nouns ending in -ing, -te, -heid, etc., it still enjoys limited productivity:

• ter wikifiëring ― intended to be wikified (literally, “for the wikification”)

• ten

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ter

1. (in street numbering) b; designating a third house with the same number

   34 ter rue de Dunkerque ― 34b Dunkirk Street

• Vietnamese: ter

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese teer, from earlier tẽer, from Latin tenēre (“to hold, to have”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈteːɾ]

ter (first-person singular present teño, first-person singular preterite tiven, past participle tido)
ter (first-person singular present tenho, first-person singular preterite tivem or tive, past participle tido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to hold, have
2. to possess

   Synonym: posuír

3. (auxiliary) ought [with de (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]

   Murmurai murmuradores / non fartaivos de murmurar / que an'que vos salten os ollos / teño de rir e cantar (folk song)

   Let's gossip, you gossipers / Never get tired of gossiping / 'cause even if your eyes pop out / I ought to laugh and sing.

   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     E como està o afillado?
     Christobo:
     Esse jà quer ir a Escola,
     pero porque non tèn sayo
     està decote na Eyra
     para escorrentar o Gando.
     Afonso:
     Pois esso non e ben feyto,
     porque e vivo coma vn allo,
     fino coma vnha pimenta,
     e se quer ser Lecenceado
     an que venda os bois do jugo
     lle teño de dar estado.

     Afonso:
     How is doing my godchild?
     Christobo:
     He already want to go to school,
     but since he has no robe
     is all the time in the field
     to drive away the livestock.
     Afonso:
     But this is not correct,
     because he is smart as a whip,
     acute as a pepper grain,
     and if he wants to be a bachelor,
     even if I have to sell the yoke oxen,
     I ought to give him estate.

• non ter dúbida
• ter que
• termar

• haber

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “te_er”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “teer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ter”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ter”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /tɛr/
• Hyphenation: tèr

From Dutch teer (“tar”), from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-.

tèr (plural ter-ter)

1. tar, the black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal

• tar
• tir

Unknown.

tèr (plural ter-ter)

1. alternative spelling of tir

Learned borrowing from Latin ter (“thrice”).

tèr (plural ter-ter)

1. (law) thrice, following bis (“second”)

• “ter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	30[a], [b]
←  2	III 3	4  →
Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     Distributive: ternus, trīnus     Collective: terniō     Fractional: triēns

From earlier terr, from Old Latin *tris, from Proto-Italic *tris, from Proto-Indo-European *trís. Cognate with Ancient Greek τρίς (trís, “thrice”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛr]

ter (not comparable)

1. thrice, three times
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.690-691:

     Ter sēsē attollēns cubitōque adnīxa levāvit,
     ter revolūta torō est [...].

     Lifting herself three times, [Dido] had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed [...].

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.247–248:

     ‘ter voluī prōmittere opem, ter lingua retenta est:
     īra Iovis magnī causa timōris erat’

     “Thrice I wanted to promise help, thrice [my] tongue was stayed:
     the anger of mighty Jupiter was the reason for [my] fear.”
     (The poetic voice is that of Flora.)

   • 2004, Ephemeris‎^[7]:

     Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ter iam primarius minister Islandiae electus est.

     Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has been elected as the president of Iceland for a third time.

2. three as understood symbolically in a cultural context
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.509–511:

     Stant ārae circum, et crīnēs effūsa sacerdōs
     ter centum tonat ōre deōs, Erebumque Chaosque,
     tergeminamque Hecatēn, tria virginis ōra Diānae.

     Altars are standing all around [the pyre], and the priestess — with her hair flowing — thunders from her lips thrice a hundred gods’ [names]: Erebus and Chaos, triform Hecate, [and] the three faces of virgin Diana.
     (The priestess who invokes “ter centum” deities may be calling three hundred gods, 100 gods three times, or “hundreds of” or “a great many,” and some of the named gods have tri-part symbolism. Threes have special significance in myth, folklore and ritual; see: Lease, Emory B., The Number Three, Mysterious, Mystic, Magic. Classical Philology, Jan., 1919, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 56-73.)

• Ter is a prefix or suffix designating the third instance of a thing, thus following bis (“second”) and preceding quater (“fourth”).

• ternus (distributive numeral)
• teruncius

• “ter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[8], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • hence these tears; there's the rub: hinc illae lacrimae (proverb.) (Ter. And. 1. 1. 99; Cael. 25. 61)
    
  • I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
    
  • one thing still makes me hesitate: unus mihi restat scrupulus (Ter. Andr. 5. 4. 37) (cf. too religio, sect. XI. 2)
    
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    
  • these are mere empty phrases: haec verba sunt (Ter. Phorm. 3. 2. 32)
    
  • what will become of me: quid (de) me fiet? (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)
    
  • to love and make a bosom friend of a person: aliquem in sinu gestare (aliquis est in sinu alicuius) (Ter. Ad. 4. 5. 75)
    
  • monstrous: o facinus indignum! (Ter. Andr. 1. 1. 118)
    

ter

1. contraction of te der

From Old English teoru, teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *dérwom. Forms with a short vowel are possibly from an Old English form *teor with loss of the final vowel.

• tarr, tarre, teer, tere, terr, terre

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːr(ə)/, /ˈtɛr/

ter (uncountable)

2. Tar or a similar substance.

• English: tar
• Scots: tar
• Yola: tar

• “tē̆r, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 December 2018.

ter

1. alternative form of teer (“tear”)

ter

1. alternative form of teer (“good”)

ter

1. present of te (reflexive), (behave)

• ert, tre

• IPA^(key): /ter/

ter

1. singular imperative of teran

Perhaps cognate to Lithuanian and Latvian te (“here!, here you are!”),^[1][2] or to the related Lithuanian prefix te-,^[1][3] which can either express the hortative mood — as in tedirba, "may he work" — or, more pertinently, the meaning "only" — as in teturiu, "I have only". Possibly more distantly related to Russian тепе́рь (tepérʹ, “now”)^[1][2] and to Ancient Greek τῆ (tê, “here!”).^[4]

Alternatively, the Prussian morpheme -er- may be functionally equivalent to Latvian -ik-, Lithuanian -ik-, -iek-. For example, er (“until”) parallels Lithuanian iki, ik, and erains (“everyone”) parallels Latvian ikviens. Under this hypothesis, ter would be composed of t- (demonstrative prefix) + -er (suffix denoting extent), and thus be equivalent to Lithuanian tik (“only”) or tiek (“that much”).^[5][6]

ter

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: 1. only, merely; 2. than, other than.

   ter ains ― alone (literally, “only one”)

   • 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 115, line 25:

     bhe kai ſteſmu nimaſſi kittawidin pogalbton boūt / ter kai tans praſtan Crixtiſnan is Deiwan naunagimton

     and that he may not be helped in any other way / [only; other than] that he was born new through baptism out of God

In the Old Prussian corpus, this only occurs one time outside of the combination ter ains; see the quotation above. In the original German text of the Catechism, the word denn (“than”) was used:

vnnd das jhm nicht anders geholffen werden moͤge / denn das es durch die Tauffe auß Gott Newgeboren

and that he may not be helped in any other way / than that he was born new through baptism out of God

Accordingly, Nesselmann glosses ter as als (“than”),^[7] which has displaced denn in this sense in modern German. However, there are good reasons to think that it may literally mean "only", discussed in the etymology above, and this is the meaning assumed by Fraenkel,^[1] Endzelīns,^[3] and Mažiulis.^[8][9] Schmalstieg mentions both potential meanings.^[2]

• têr (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese teer, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese tẽer, Latin tenēre.

• Hyphenation: ter

ter (first-person singular present tenho, first-person singular preterite tive, past participle tido)

1. to have
   1. (transitive) to own; to possess; to have; to have got

      Synonym: possuir

      Tenho uma bela casa.

      I have a beautiful house.

      • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 19:

        Estou perfeitamente satisfeito com a segurança que tenho [...]

        I'm perfectly happy with the security I have [...]

      • 2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “Natal branco”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 49:

        No portão de entrada está escrito "Entrance" em vez de "Entrada" e todas as ruas têm nomes em inglês, como "Flower Lane" e "Sunshine Street".

        In the entrance gate, it's written “Entrance” instead of “Entrada” and all the streets have English names, such as “Flower Lane” and “Sunshine Street”.

   2. (intransitive) to be rich, to have plenty of money; or, to have enough money to live comfortably

      Os caridosos sempre ajudam os que menos têm.

      The charitable always help those who don’t have enough.

   3. (transitive) to have as a component or to consist of

      Synonyms: possuir, consistir de

      Esta frase tem cinco palavras.

      This sentence has five words.

      As lanças têm cabos compridos.

      Spears have long shafts.

      • 2012, John E. Gamble, Arthur A. Thompson Jr., Fundamentos da Administração Estratégica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 242publisher=AMGH Editora:

        O iRiver Spinn era um player de vídeo e áudio com estilo, do tamanho de um cartão de crédito, que tinha um display LCD de 3,3 polegadas.

        iRiver Spinn was a stylish video and audio player, the size of a credit card, that had a 3.3-inch LCD display.

   4. (transitive) to have (to be related in some way to, with the object identifying the relationship)

      Este livro tem dono.

      This book has an owner.

      Tenho três irmãs.

      I have three sisters.

   5. (transitive) to be in possession of; to have as part of one’s personal effects; to have in hand

      Synonym: carregar

      O senhor tem a sua carteira?

      Do you have your wallet on you?

   6. (transitive) to consist of a certain amount of units of measurement

      Tenho quarenta anos.

      I am forty years old.

      (literally, “I have forty years”)

      Tenho 1,78 m de altura.

      I am 1.78 m tall.

      Esta caneta tem dez centímetros.

      This pen is ten centimeters long.

   7. (transitive) to have a certain characteristic

      Este jogo não tem graça.

      This game isn’t fun.

      (literally, “this game doesn’t have fun”)

      As palavras que dizes têm significado.

      The words you say have meaning.

      • 2008, Magno Constantino, Manual De Magia & Bruxaria Cigana, Clube de Autores, page 80:

        Você deve ter cuidado com falsos amigos, do tipo "amigo-urso".

        You must have caution with fake friends, the backstabbing kind.

   8. (transitive) to be afflicted with a certain disease or other medical condition

      Synonyms: sofrer de

      Tens um resfriado.

      You have a cold.

      • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

        Naquela manhã levantara-se ainda um pouco mais lânguido que do costume, porque passara mal a noite. A velha Isabel, que lhe ficava ao lado esquerdo, ouvindo-o suspirar com insistência, perguntou-lhe o que tinha.

        That morning he had gotten up a little more sluggish than usual, because he had been ill all night. The old woman Isabel, who was standing next to him on the left, heard him sighing insistently and asked him what he had.

   9. (transitive) indicates that the subject has an event (the object) scheduled

      Temos uma partida de xadrez daqui a uma semana.

      We have a chess match in a week.

   10. (Brazil, intransitive) to receive one’s wage

       Synonym: receber

       Ainda não tive esse mês.

       I still haven’t received my wage this month.

   12. (auxiliary, taking a masculine singular past participle) used in forming the perfect aspect

       Synonym: haver

       Já tínhamos comido bolo.

       We had eaten cake already.

       Tenho comido muita carne ultimamente.

       I have been eating a lot of meat lately.

       Eu o teria comprado, se tivesse dinheiro.

       I would have bought it, if I had money.

       • 2006, Rinaldo de Fernandes, Quartas histórias: contos baseados em narrativas de Guimarães Rosa, Editora Garamond, →ISBN, page 99:

         Ninguém ia desconfiar dele com aquela cara de abestado. Até que era bom ter cara de abestado, nunca que fossem pensar que tinha sido ele.

         No one was going to suspect him with that stupid face. It was even good to have a stupid face: they would never think it had been him.

2. (auxiliary, with de or que + infinitive) See ter de, ter que.
3. (Brazil, informal, impersonal, transitive) there be (to exist, physically or abstractly)

   Synonyms: haver, existir (personal)

   Amanhã terá aula.

   There will be class tomorrow.

   Tem países em guerra naquela região.

   There are countries at war in that region.

   • 1970, Léo Canhoto, Robertinho, “Rock Bravo Chegou Para Matar”, in Rock Bravo Chegou para Matar:

     Amanhã no seu enterro terá muitas flores!

     Tomorrow at your funeral there will be many flowers!

   • 2014 [2006], Camila Kintzel, transl., Quebrada em grande estilo […] , São Paulo: Gutemberg, translation of Bitter is the New Black […] by Jen Lancaster, →ISBN, page 274:

     O mercado da esquina era nojento. Tinha gente de pé do lado de fora comendo manga e jogando os caroços no chão.

     The corner market was disgusting. There were people standing outside eating mangoes and throwing their stones on the ground.

4. (transitive) to give birth to

   Synonyms: dar à luz, parir

   A vaca terá um bezerro.

   The cow will give birth to a calf.

   Estou tendo gêmeos!

   I'm having twins!

5. (transitive) to consider (assign some quality to) [with direct object ‘someone’, along with por or como (+ copulative noun or adjective)]

   Synonym: considerar

   Todos têm João por inteligente.

   Everyone considers John to be intelligent.

   João o tinha como amigo.

   John considered him a friend.

6. (transitive) to go to; to interact [with com ‘with someone’]
   • 1948, Bíblia Sagrada, edição Almeida Revista e Corrigida, Provérbios 6:6

   Vá ter com a formiga, ó preguiçoso; considera os seus caminhos e sê sábio.

   Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise.

For verbs that have both short and long past participles — for example, morrer (“to die”), whose short past participle is morto and long one is morrido — when ter is used as an auxiliary verb, the long one is generally used (like haver, and unlike ser and estar). However, for some verbs, short past participles are more common than long ones (e.g. aceito, eleito, gasto, ganho, pego, and salvo).^[1][2]

• “ter”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “ter”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “ter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “ter”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “ter”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025

From Proto-Turkic *tẹr (“sweat”).

ter

1. sweat

Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ter”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

• te
• tere

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

• IPA^(key): /ter/

ter (Cyrillic spelling тер)

1. (Croatia, poetic, archaic) and

   Synonyms: i, te

ter

1. romanization of 𒌁 (ter)

ter

1. present indicative of te

• ert, tre

From Ottoman Turkish تر (ter, “sweat”), from Proto-Turkic *tẹr (“sweat”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ter), Karakhanid تَرْ (ter), Azerbaijani tər, etc.

• IPA^(key): /tæɾ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -æɾ

ter

1. sweat

• terlemek
• terli
• terlik

• “ter”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

From Proto-Turkic *tẹr (“sweat”).

ter

1. sweat

From French ter, from Latin ter (“thrice”).

ter

1. (in street numbering) b; designating a third house with the same number.

• bis
• kép

• Đỗ Phi Hùng (13 February 2012) “Vẫn loay hoay trong "mê hồn trận" số nhà”, in Tuổi Trẻ‎^[9] (in Vietnamese), Ho Chi Minh City, retrieved 12 March 2022

• IPA^(key): [teɾ]

ter (nominative plural ters)

1. aunt or uncle

• zian (“aunt”)
• ziom (“uncle”)

• hiter (“uncle”)
• jiter (“aunt”)