# tero
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian terra and French terre, from Latin terra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtero]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ero
* Hyphenation: te‧ro

### Noun

tero (uncountable, accusative teron)
* the earth's surface
** 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:Eĉ el sub la tero aperas la vero.Even from underground, the truth appears.
* soil, ground (substance)
* solid ground, land (in contrast with the water)
* (often capitalized) the planet Earth
    Ekologiistoj deziras konservi la naturajn rimedojn de la tero.Environmentalists desire to conserve the Earth's natural resources.

#### Derived terms

* alterigi (“to land”, transitive verb)
* alteriĝi (“to land”, intransitive verb)
* tera (“terrestrial”)
* teramaso (“mound”)
* terano (“Terran”)
* terglobuso (“terrestrial globe”)
* termantelo (“mantle”)
* tertremo (“earthquake”)

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tero, French terre, Italian terra, Spanish tierra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtero/

### Noun

tero (uncountable)
* earth

### See also

* Tero

## Japanese
### Romanization

tero
* Rōmaji transcription of テロ

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
See also Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”), Danish dreje (“to turn”), Swedish dreja (“to turn”), Albanian dredh (“to turn, twist, tremble”), Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈte.roː/, [ˈt̪ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈte.ro/, [ˈt̪ɛːro]

### Verb

terō (present infinitive terere, perfect active trīvī, supine trītum); third conjugation
* to rub or triturate
* to wear away or wear out, consume
    Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, dēterō, abūtor, conterō, atterō, tenuō, eneco, adedō, perago, accīdō, effundo
* to tread
* (time) to pass, spend
    Synonyms: dēgō, cōnsūmō, trānsmittō, tollō, eximō, trādūcō, agō

#### Derived terms

* atterō
* circumterō
* conterō
* dēterō
* exterō
* interō
* obterō
* perterō
* praeterō
* prōterō
* subterō
* terebra
* teres
* trībulum
* trīticum
* trītor
* trītūra
* trītus

### References

* “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “tero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* tero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* "tero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* tero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteɾo/ [ˈt̪e.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -eɾo
* Syllabification: te‧ro

### Noun

tero m (plural teros)
* (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense) Clipping of teruteru (“terutero”).
    Synonym: avefría tero

### Further reading

* “tero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* rote, roté, reto

## Tabaru
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈte.ɾo]

### Verb

tero
* (stative, attributive) to be nice (of a person)

### References

* Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈte.ɾo/

### Verb

tero
* to hit, to make a hit

#### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh