terebra

See also: Terebra

English

Etymology

Latin terebra (“a borer”).

Noun

terebra (plural terebras or terebrae)

  1. The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
  2. (historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “terebra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin terebra.

Noun

terebra f (plural terebre)

  1. terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)

Verb

terebra

  1. inflection of terebrare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From ter(ō) +‎ -bra.

Alternative forms

Noun

terebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension

  1. an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative terebra terebrae
Genitive terebrae terebrārum
Dative terebrae terebrīs
Accusative terebram terebrās
Ablative terebrā terebrīs
Vocative terebra terebrae
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Albanian: turjelë (from a diminutive)
  • → Italian: terebra
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: (from a diminutive)
  • → Portuguese: térebra
  • Spanish: tarabilla (from a diminutive)

Verb

terebrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of terebrō

References
  • “terebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • terebra 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)
  • terebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “terebra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “terebra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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