terra – Latin noun declension

Noun: terra
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singular	terra
Plural	terrae

Genitive

Singular	terrae
Plural	terrārum

Dative

Singular	terrae
Plural	terrīs

Accusative

Singular	terram
Plural	terrās

Ablative

Singular	terrā
Plural	terrīs

Vocative

Singular	terra
Plural	terrae

Sample Sentences

Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros
sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
inter enim labentur aquae, tenuisque subibit
halitus, atque animos tollent sata. Iamque reperti
qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
urgerent: hoc effusos munimen ad imbris, (Translation by James B. Greenough

For the rest, whate'er

The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon

Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth

Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal

Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween

Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,

And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.

Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone

Or heavy potsherd press them from above;

This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this

When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353]
Longa via est, properā! nōbīs habitābitur orbis (Translation by A. S. Kline

Quick, it’s a long way! I’ll be alive here at the end

of the earth, in a land that’s far away from my land.

(The poet writes from exile.)) [8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.127–128]
[…]et asportavit ea in terram Sennaar in domum dei sui[…] (Translation by King James Version

[…] which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god […]) [c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Daniel 1:2]
[Agorastocles] Quaeso, qui lubet tam diu tenere collum?
Omitte saltem tu altera. Nolo ego istuc. [Adelphasium] Enicas me.
Prius quam tibi desponderit. [Agorastocles] Mitto. [Adelphasium] Sperate, salve.
[Hanno] Condamus alter alterum ergo in nervom bracchialem.
Quibus nunc in terra melius est? [Agorastocles] Eveniunt digna dignis. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.4.105–110]
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque
et genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque volucres, (Translation by A. S. Kline

Every species on earth, man and creature, and the species

of the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,

rush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon III]
[…]num igitur dubitamus—? an sicut pleraque? quamquam hoc quidem minime; persuadent enim mathematici terram in medio mundo sitam ad universi caeli complexum quasi puncti instar optinere, quod κέντρον illi vocant[…]
Translation by Charles Duke Yonge
[…] Do we, then, doubt, as we do in other cases (though I think here is very little room for doubt in this case, for the mathematicians prove the facts to us), that the earth is placed in the midst of the universe, being, as it were, a sort of point, which they call a κέντρον, surrounded by the whole heavens […] [106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.17.40]

Nouns inflected like terra

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ters-der.
3. Proto-Italic *terzā
4. Latin terra
5. From Proto-Italic *terzā, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-eh₂, from *ters- (“dry”). Doublet of torreō. Cognate with Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Old Irish tír, Sanskrit तृषा (tṛ́ṣā), Old English þurst (whence English thirst). Compare the semantics of Ancient Greek Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos). See: Old English Nouns 'þurst'.

Verbs referencing "terra"

Catalan Nouns terra, Galician Nouns terra, Italian Nouns terra, Old Portuguese Nouns terra, Portuguese Nouns terra, Asturian Nouns tierra, Spanish Nouns tierra, English Nouns thirst, French Nouns terre, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kontinent, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kontinent, English Nouns terrier, French Nouns terrier, French Nouns terroir, Romanian Nouns țară, Old English Nouns þurst, English Nouns terrarium, Dutch Nouns terrarium, French Nouns terrarium, Italian Nouns terrazzo, Spanish Nouns terrazo, Irish Nouns tír, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns terrasse, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns terrasse, Romanian Nouns țăran, Catalan Nouns terreny, Galician Nouns terreiro, Portuguese Nouns terreiro, Russian Nouns терраса, Spanish Nouns terrero, English Nouns terrella, Ukrainian Nouns терикон, German Nouns Terrier.