terne

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Borrowed from French terne,^[1] from Middle French, from Old French terne (“dim, dull”), from Frankish *darnī (“concealed, hidden; secret”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark; dirty”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“to darken, dim”).

terne (comparative more terne, superlative most terne)

1. Colourless, drab, dull.

From terneplate,^[2] probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (see etymology 1) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).

terne (uncountable)

1. (also attributively) An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel.
2. Synonym of terneplate (“thin iron or steel sheeting coated with this alloy”)

A variant of tern.

terne (plural ternes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tern (“any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail”). [17th c.]

• terne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, rente, treen

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• IPA^(key): /tɛʁn/

From Middle French, from Old French terne (“dull, dim”), from Frankish *darnī (“hidden, secret”).

terne (plural ternes)

1. dull; colourless; drab

• ternir

Borrowed from Latin ternas.

terne m (plural ternes)

1. (obsolete) trinity, gathering of three people
2. (backgammon, dice games) double-three
3. (bingo) three in a row

• enter, entre, entré, rente, renté

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

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(deprecated template usage) terne

1. vocative masculine singular of ternus

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From Old Norse þerna

terne f or m (definite singular terna or ternen, indefinite plural terner, definite plural ternene)

1. a tern (seabird of family Sternidae)

• “terne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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From Old Norse þerna. Akin to English tern.

• IPA^(key): /²tɛrnə/

terne f (definite singular terna, indefinite plural terner, definite plural ternene)

1. a tern (seabird of family Sternidae)

• “terne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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terne

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ternar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ternar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ternar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ternar.