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): /ˈte.roː/, [ˈt̪ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ro/, [ˈt̪ɛːro]

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

Conjugation of terō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	terō	teris	terit	terimus	teritis	terunt
	imperfect	terēbam	terēbās	terēbat	terēbāmus	terēbātis	terēbant
	future	teram	terēs	teret	terēmus	terētis	terent
	perfect	trīvī	trīvistī	trīvit	trīvimus	trīvistis	trīvērunt, trīvēre
	pluperfect	trīveram	trīverās	trīverat	trīverāmus	trīverātis	trīverant
	future perfect	trīverō	trīveris	trīverit	trīverimus	trīveritis	trīverint
passive	present	teror	tereris, terere	teritur	terimur	teriminī	teruntur
	imperfect	terēbar	terēbāris, terēbāre	terēbātur	terēbāmur	terēbāminī	terēbantur
	future	terar	terēris, terēre	terētur	terēmur	terēminī	terentur
	perfect	trītus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	trītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	trītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	teram	terās	terat	terāmus	terātis	terant
	imperfect	tererem	tererēs	tereret	tererēmus	tererētis	tererent
	perfect	trīverim	trīverīs	trīverit	trīverīmus	trīverītis	trīverint
	pluperfect	trīvissem	trīvissēs	trīvisset	trīvissēmus	trīvissētis	trīvissent
passive	present	terar	terāris, terāre	terātur	terāmur	terāminī	terantur
	imperfect	tererer	tererēris, tererēre	tererētur	tererēmur	tererēminī	tererentur
	perfect	trītus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	trītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	tere	—	—	terite	—
	future	—	teritō	teritō	—	teritōte	teruntō
passive	present	—	terere	—	—	teriminī	—
	future	—	teritor	teritor	—	—	teruntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		terere	trīvisse	trītūrum esse	terī	trītum esse	trītum īrī
participles		terēns	—	trītūrus	—	trītus	terendus, terundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		terendī	terendō	terendum	terendō	trītum	trītū

• “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 (2003-2024), 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. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) teru-tero

• “tero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• 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

Conjugation of tero
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totero	fotero	mitero
2nd	notero	nitero
3rd	Masculine	otero	itero, yotero†
Feminine	motero
Neuter	itero
† - archaic

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