terreo

• tarrén, tarreo, tarreu

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin terrēnus. Cognate with Portuguese terreno and Spanish terreno.

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈre.o̝/

terreo m (plural terreos)

1. ground

   Synonym: chan

   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 556:

     Outrosy mandamos que o dicto martin bezerra et sua moller façan outra porta a a dicta casa noua en a outra quadra via de de çima en o chaao, et que non aia altura nehuna do terreo, et que seia ancha tanto por que posa entrar longura de hun tonel a traues, et de altura por que posa entrar un ome ençima de hun caualo, et que non seia ferrada de ferro, saluo palmelas et golfoos pertenesçentes.

     Otherwise, we command that the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should made another gate in this new house, in the other square, in the ground level, which should not have any elevation over the ground; it should be wide enough to enter a barrel in long, and high enough for a mounted man, and it should have not iron reinforcements with the exception of the needed leaves and pins [of the hinges]

2. terrain; plot; field

   Synonyms: campo, herdade, leira, predio

   • 1413, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 140:

     et outros dous terreos na cortiña do Torno, que jaz hun deles a caron d'outro de Rodrigo Ares da Presa

     and another two plots in the garden of Torno; one of them alongside another one which belongs to Rodrigo Ares da Presa

   • 1812, Ramón González Serna, Carta Recomendada:

     é ó mesmo que tornar os paxaros de un tarreo para que non coman ó grao, é deixar ó mesmo tempo portelos abertos para que ó coman os porcos

     it is the same as driving away the birds from a terrain so that they don't eat the grain, and then leaving the gates open for the pigs to do it

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terreos, feminine plural terreas)

1. earthen

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “terreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “terreo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “terreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “terreo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “terreo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Latin terreus (“earthy”). By surface analysis, terr(a) (“ground, earth”) +‎ -eo (“-ous”, derivational suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.re.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛrreo
• Hyphenation: tèr‧re‧o

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terrei, feminine plural terree)

1. (rare) earthy; resembling ground or soil
2. (by extension, usually referred to the face) pale, ashen

• retore, torere

From *tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti, causative from *tres- (“to tremble”), extended form of Proto-Indo-European *ter-.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬭𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (trər^əsaⁱti), Ancient Greek τρέω (tréō), Old Irish tarrach, Lithuanian trišu, Latvian trisēt, Old Church Slavonic трѧсти (tręsti), Sanskrit त्रसति (trasati). See also tremō, trepidus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈter.re.oː/, [ˈt̪ɛrːeoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.re.o/, [ˈt̪ɛrːeo]

terreō (present infinitive terrēre, perfect active terruī, supine territum); second conjugation

1. to frighten, terrify, alarm

   Synonyms: perterreō, exterreō, conterreō, dēterreō, absterreō, exciō, cōnsternō

2. to deter by terror, scare (away)

• “terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terreo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.