terna

From Old Norse þerna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛtna/

terna f (genitive singular ternu, plural ternur)

1. tern (Sterna paradisaea)

• faksaterna
• fransaterna
• kriterna
• vongsvørt terna

From Old Norse þerna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛɻɳa/

terna f (genitive singular ternu, plural ternur)

1. maid
2. stewardess, air hostess

• (air hostess): flogterna

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese tṛṇa, from Sanskrit तृण (tṛṇa, “grass, herb, straw”). Compare Javanese ꦠꦼꦂꦤ (terna, “sprout”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /tərˈna/ [t̪ərˈna]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ter‧na

terna (plural terna-terna)

1. (botany) herb; herbaceous plant

• “terna” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛrna
• Hyphenation: tèr‧na

terna f (plural terne)

1. backhoe, backhoe loader, loader excavator

• terna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• terna in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• terna in Dizionario di Italiano online - La Repubblica

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

terna

1. inflection of ternus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

ternā

1. ablative feminine singular of ternus

• "terna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• ternen

terna m or f

1. definite feminine singular of terne

terna f

1. definite singular of terne

terna

1. feminine singular of terno

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɾna/ [ˈt̪eɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ter‧na

Borrowed from Latin ternī (“three by three, three each”).

terna f (plural ternas)

1. set of three

terna

1. inflection of ternar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “terna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024