terebra

From Latin terebra (“a borer”).

terebra (plural terebras or terebrae)

1. The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
2. (historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.

Learned borrowing from Latin terebra.

terebra f (plural terebre)

1. terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)

terebra

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

• trabere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛrɛbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛːrebrä]

From ter(ō) +‎ -bra.

• terebrum
• terebellum

terebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension

1. an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet

First-declension noun.

• terebrō

• → Albanian: turjelë (from a diminutive)
• → Italian: terebra
• Old Galician-Portuguese: (from a diminutive)
  • Galician: tarabela
  • Portuguese: taramela
• → Portuguese: térebra
• Spanish: tarabilla (from a diminutive)

terebrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of terebrō

• “terebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terebra 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)
• terebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “terebra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “terebra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin