terrenus

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *terzeznos, from *terzos +‎ *-nos, the first of which from Proto-Indo-European *tersos, neuter s-stem to the root *ters- (“dry”).
Alternatively, from the locative form *terrai of terra and -nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /terˈreː.nus/, [t̪ɛrˈreːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /terˈre.nus/, [t̪erˈrɛːnus]

Adjective

terrēnus (feminine terrēna, neuter terrēnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. earthly
2. terrestrial

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	terrēnus	terrēna	terrēnum		terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēna
genitive	terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēnī		terrēnōrum	terrēnārum	terrēnōrum
dative	terrēnō	terrēnae	terrēnō		terrēnīs
accusative	terrēnum	terrēnam	terrēnum		terrēnōs	terrēnās	terrēna
ablative	terrēnō	terrēnā	terrēnō		terrēnīs
vocative	terrēne	terrēna	terrēnum		terrēnī	terrēnae	terrēna

Derived terms

• terrēna
• terrēnitās (Mediaeval Latin)
• terrēnum

Descendants

• Asturian: terrenu
• Catalan: terreny, terrè
• Corsican: tarrenu, terrenu
• English: terrenal, terrene
• French: terrain
  • → English: terrain
• Friulian: teren
• Italian: terreno
• Leonese: tarreno, tarrenu, tarrén
• Occitan: terran, terren
• Old Galician-Portuguese: terreo, tarreo, terrẽo, terreno
  • Fala: terrenu
  • Galician: terreo, tarrén, tarreo, tarreu
  • Portuguese: terreno (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: teren
• Sicilian: tirrenu
• Spanish: terreno
• Venetan: taren, teren

References

• “terrēnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terrenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terrenus 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)
• terrēnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,560–1.
• “terrēnus” on page 1,928 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “terrenus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,024/1