terrestre

Borrowed from Latin terrestris.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈres.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teˈres.tɾe]

terrestre m or f (masculine and feminine plural terrestres)

1. terrestrial; earthly

• extraterrestre

• “terrestre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “terrestre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “terrestre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “terrestre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French terrestre, borrowed from Latin terrestris.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁɛstʁ/ ~ /te.ʁɛstʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstʁ
• Homophone: terrestres

terrestre (plural terrestres)

1. (relational) soil, earth
2. (relational) Earth

• mondain
• terrien
• tellurique

• aquatique
• céleste
• extraterrestre

• planétaire

• terre

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

Learned borrowing from Latin terrestris.

terrestre m or f (plural terrestres)

1. terrestrial

• extraterrestre

• “terrestre”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Latin terrestris.

• IPA^(key): /terˈrɛs.tre/
• Rhymes: -ɛstre
• Hyphenation: ter‧rè‧stre

terrestre m or f (plural terrestri)

1. earthly
2. terrestrial
3. land

• extraterrestre
• globo terrestre

terrestre m (plural terrestri)

1. terrestrial
2. earthling
3. earthly

• terrestre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛrˈrɛs.trɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪erˈrɛs.t̪re]

terrestre

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of terrestris

Borrowed from Old French terrestre.

terrestre

1. Terrestrial; earthly.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1330-1332:

     Heer may ye se, and heer-by may ye preve,
     That wyf is mannes help and his confort,
     His paradys terrestre and his disport.

     Here can you see, and hereby can you prove,
     That wife is man's help and his comfort,
     His earthly paradise, and his source of consolation.

• “terrestre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin terrestris.

terrestre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terrestre)

1. terrestrial; earthly

• → Middle English: terrestre
  • English: terrestre (obsolete)
• French: terrestre

Borrowed from Latin terrestris.

terrestre m or f (plural terrestres)

1. terrestrial (of, relating to, or inhabiting the Earth)

   Synonyms: terráqueo, térreo

2. terrestrial (living in dry land)

• extraterrestre

terrestre m or f by sense (plural terrestres)

1. Terrestrial; Earthling; Terran (inhabitant of Earth)

   Synonym: terráqueo

• “terrestre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin terrestris.

• IPA^(key): /teˈrestɾe/ [t̪eˈres.t̪ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -estɾe
• Syllabification: te‧rres‧tre

terrestre m or f (masculine and feminine plural terrestres)

1. terrestrial
2. earthling
3. earthly

• “terrestre”, 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