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)
From terneplate,[2] probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (see etymology 1) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).
terne (countable and uncountable, plural ternes)
A variant of tern.
terne (plural ternes)
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