terreo

See also: térreo

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Alternative forms

• tarrén, tarreo, tarreu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese terreo, from Latin terrēnus, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-. Cognate with Portuguese terreno and Spanish terreno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈreo/ [t̪ɛˈre.ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eo

Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)

1. ground

   Synonym: chan

2. terrain; plot; field

   Synonyms: campo, herdade, leira, predio

   • 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

Adjective

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

1. earthen

References

• 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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Anagrams

• retore, torere

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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)

Conjugation

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	terreō	terrēs	terret	terrēmus	terrētis	terrent
	imperfect	terrēbam	terrēbās	terrēbat	terrēbāmus	terrēbātis	terrēbant
	future	terrēbō	terrēbis	terrēbit	terrēbimus	terrēbitis	terrēbunt
	perfect	terruī	terruistī	terruit	terruimus	terruistis	terruērunt, terruēre
	pluperfect	terrueram	terruerās	terruerat	terruerāmus	terruerātis	terruerant
	future perfect	terruerō	terrueris	terruerit	terruerimus	terrueritis	terruerint
passive	present	terreor	terrēris, terrēre	terrētur	terrēmur	terrēminī	terrentur
	imperfect	terrēbar	terrēbāris, terrēbāre	terrēbātur	terrēbāmur	terrēbāminī	terrēbantur
	future	terrēbor	terrēberis, terrēbere	terrēbitur	terrēbimur	terrēbiminī	terrēbuntur
	perfect	territus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	territus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	territus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	terream	terreās	terreat	terreāmus	terreātis	terreant
	imperfect	terrērem	terrērēs	terrēret	terrērēmus	terrērētis	terrērent
	perfect	terruerim	terruerīs	terruerit	terruerīmus	terruerītis	terruerint
	pluperfect	terruissem	terruissēs	terruisset	terruissēmus	terruissētis	terruissent
passive	present	terrear	terreāris, terreāre	terreātur	terreāmur	terreāminī	terreantur
	imperfect	terrērer	terrērēris, terrērēre	terrērētur	terrērēmur	terrērēminī	terrērentur
	perfect	territus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	territus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	terrē	—	—	terrēte	—
	future	—	terrētō	terrētō	—	terrētōte	terrentō
passive	present	—	terrēre	—	—	terrēminī	—
	future	—	terrētor	terrētor	—	—	terrentor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		terrēre	terruisse	territūrum esse	terrērī	territum esse	territum īrī
participles		terrēns	—	territūrus	—	territus	terrendus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		terrendī	terrendō	terrendum	terrendō	territum	territū

   Conjugation of terreō (second conjugation)

Derived terms

• absterreō
• conterreō
• dēterreō
• exterreō
• perterreō
• prōterreō
• terribilis
• terricula
• terrificus
• terriloquus
• terrisonus
• territiō
• territō
• territus
• terror

References

• “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.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tarreo, terrẽo, terreno

Etymology

Inherited from Latin terrēnus, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.

Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)

1. (uncountable) ground
   • 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
   • 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

3. land (real estate or landed property)

Descendants

• Fala: terrenu
• Galician: terreo, tarrén, tarreo, tarreu
• Portuguese: terreno (see there for further descendants)

References

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “terreno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega