# terreo
## Galician
### 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: /tɛˈreo/ [t̪ɛˈre.ʊ]
* Rhymes: -eo

### Noun

terreo m (plural terreos)
* ground
    Synonym: chan
* 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 porcosit 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)
* 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: /ˈtɛr.re.o/
* Rhymes: -ɛrreo
* Hyphenation: tèr‧re‧o

### Adjective

terreo (feminine terrea, masculine plural terrei, feminine plural terree)
* (rare) earthy; resembling ground or soil
* (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$^ə$sa$^i$ti), 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: /ˈter.re.oː/, [ˈt̪ɛrːeoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈter.re.o/, [ˈt̪ɛrːeo]

### Verb

terreō (present infinitive terrēre, perfect active terruī, supine territum); second conjugation
* to frighten, terrify, alarm
    Synonyms: perterreō, exterreō, conterreō, dēterreō, absterreō, exciō, cōnsternō
* to deter by terror, scare (away)

#### 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)
* (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]
* 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 Presaand another two plots in the garden of Torno; one of them alongside another one which belongs to Rodrigo Ares da Presa
* 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