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English

Etymology

Latin territorium from terra (“the earth”) and -torium (“place of occurrence”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t????t??i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???t(?)?i/

Noun

territory (countable and uncountable, plural territories)

1. A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
2. (Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
3. (Australia) One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
4. A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
5. (ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
6. (sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
7. A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
8. A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
9. A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
10. An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

      The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???/

Noun

terra (plural terras or terrae)

1. (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo.

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Anagrams

• Arter, arrêt, arter, rater, retar, tarre

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan terra, from Latin terra. Compare Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?t?.r?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?.ra/
• Rhymes: -?ra

Noun

terra f (plural terres)

1. earth
2. land

Noun

terra m (plural terres)

1. ground

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Further reading

• “terra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “terra” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “terra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “terra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• tarra

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Noun

terra f (plural terri)

1. earth
3. Earth

Estonian

Noun

terra

1. illative singular of tera

French

Verb

terra

1. third-person singular past historic of terrer

Anagrams

• arrêt, errât, rater

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese terra, from Latin terra. Cognate with Portuguese terra and Spanish tierra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ra?/

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

1. soil, earth
2. land, country
3. (in the plural) real estate possesions or heritage

Related terms

• soterrar
• terreo
• territorio

See also

• Terra

References

• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “terra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “terra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “terra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “terra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.ra/

Etymology 1

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terz?, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh?, from *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. ground
2. (colloquial, atechnical synonym of suolo (“terreno”, “soil”)) soil

   Synonyms: suolo, terreno

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Terra (“Earth”)

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Terra) planet

   Synonym: pianeta

Derived terms

See also

• geo-
• luna
• mondo
• sole

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *terz?, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh?, from *ters- (“dry”). Cognate with torre?, Ancient Greek ???????? (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit ??????? (t???yati), Old English þurst (English thirst).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ter.ra/, [?t??r?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ter.ra/, [?t??r??]

Noun

terra f (genitive terrae); first declension

1. ground, dry land
2. earth, soil, dirt
3. Earth's surface (dry land and sea together; as opposed to the heavens)
   • 29 bc, Vergil, Georgics, III

     omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
     et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
     in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt

     So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
     whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
     collapse into the frenzies and the fire [of sex].

5. the world, the globe, earth as a celestial object
6. a land, a region, a country, a territory
   • ad 405, Jerome, Vulgate Bible, Dan. 1:2

     […] et asportavit ea in terram sennaar in domvm dei svi […]

     […] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]

Usage notes

The use of terra to describe the globe as a heavenly body was already established in antiquity, but in New Latin, as the Earth became more indistinguishable from other planets, it gradually came to be treated as a proper noun (see Terra). The English Earth underwent this same transition.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• tell?s

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Descendants

References

• terra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• terra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• terra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terra in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Anagrams

• errat

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ter?/

Noun

terra f (plural terre)

1. land

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin terra, from Proto-Italic *terz?, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh?, from *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

terra f (oblique plural terras, nominative singular terra, nominative plural terras)

1. land

Related terms

• terrassa

Descendants

• Catalan: terra
• Occitan: tèrra

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese terra, from Latin terra, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t?.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?.??/, [?t??.??]
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?.??/

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

2. land; region; territory (area associated with something)

4. ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings)

6. land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone)

8. (sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water)

10. earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground)

12. land; homeland

Synonyms

• (region): região, território
• (ground): chão, solo
• (property): terreno
• (dry land): terra firme
• (homeland): terra natal, terrinha

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Proper noun

terra f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Terra

Verb

terra

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of terrar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of terrar

See also

• Terra

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) tiara

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Noun

terra f (plural terras)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) land, soil
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) country, land
4. (capitalized, proper noun, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) the planet Earth

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais
• (Sutsilvan) pajis
• (Surmiran) paeis
• (Puter) terrain

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???a/
• Hyphenation: tèr?ra

Noun

terra f (plural terri)

1. land
2. earth
3. soil
4. ground

Related terms

• territoriu
• tirrazzu
• tirrenu