# terrasse
## English
### Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.

### Noun

terrasse (plural terrasses)
* (Quebec) Terrace, patio.
* (heraldry) A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.

### Verb

terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)
* To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
** 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.
** 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.

### Anagrams

* Resetars, asserter, rearsets, reassert, serrates

## Danish
### Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tarasə/, [tˢaˈʁɑsə]

### Noun

terrasse c (singular definite terrassen, plural indefinite terrasser)
* terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
* (heraldry) compartment

#### Related terms

* terrassere (verb)
* terrassevin c

### Further reading

* “terrasse” in Den Danske Ordbog
* terrasse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Etymology

From terre, probably influenced by Old Occitan terrassa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛ.ʁas/ ~ /te.ʁas/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

terrasse f (plural terrasses)
* terrace

#### Descendants

* → Danish: terrasse
* → German: Terrasse
** → Czech: terasa
** → Kashubian: terasa
** → Lower Sorbian: terasa
** → Serbo-Croatian: terasa
** → Silesian: terasa
* → Italian: terrazza
** → Ottoman Turkish: تراچه (taraça), داراچه (daraça)
*** Turkish: taraça
*** → Armenian: տառացա (taṙacʻa), թառացա (tʻaṙacʻa)
* → Polish: taras
* → Romanian: terasă
* → Turkish: teras

### Verb

terrasse
* first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of terrer

### Verb

terrasse
* inflection of terrasser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “terrasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* resteras, serrâtes, stèreras, stéreras, terseras, tressera

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrasser, definite plural terrassene)
* terrace

#### Derived terms

* takterrasse

### References

* “terrasse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.

### Noun

terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrassar, definite plural terrassane)
* terrace

#### Derived terms

* takterrasse

### References

* “terrasse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Verb

terrasse
* first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of terrar