tero

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: te‧ro

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)

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

     Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.

     Even from underground, the truth appears.

2. soil, ground (substance)
3. solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
4. (often capitalized) the planet Earth

   Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.

   Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtero/

tero (uncountable)

1. earth

• Tero

tero

1. Rōmaji transcription of テロ

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛː.ro]

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

1. to rub or triturate
2. to wear away or wear out, consume

   Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo

3. to tread
4. (time) to pass, spend

   Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

• “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 Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "tero", 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)
• tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɾo/ [ˈt̪e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: te‧ro

tero m (plural teros)

1. (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense) clipping of teruteru (“terutero”)

   Synonym: avefría tero

• “tero”, 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

• rote, roté, reto

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.ɾo]

tero

1. (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɾo/

tero

1. to hit, to make a hit

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh