teren

teren

1. genitive indefinite of te

• Hyphenation: te‧ren

teren

1. deep, profound
2. dark (with compound words)

• “teren”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːrə(n)/
• Rhymes: -eːrən

From Middle Dutch tēren (“to destroy, to use (up)”), from Old Dutch *terien, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, related to *teraną (“to tear, rip apart”). Cognate with German zehren. Also related with English tear (“to rip”).

teren

1. (intransitive) to eat or drink what is necessary to survive
2. (intransitive) to live, survive by consumption
3. (intransitive, archaic) to rot, to decompose, to waste away
4. (intransitive, archaic) to be digested

• tering
• beteren
• verteren

From Middle Dutch teren, terren. Equivalent to teer +‎ -en.

teren

1. (transitive) to tar

• beteren

• rente

tere (“on the ground”) +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): [ˈteren]
• Rhymes: -eren
• Hyphenation: te‧ren

teren

1. to the ground, onto the ground
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 21, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     La popolo, en festaj vestoj, kun branĉetoj en la manoj, formis spaliron kaj kriis, kantis aŭ falis teren antaŭ la kronprinco.

     The people, in festive clothes and with twigs in their hands, formed a row and shouted, sang, or fell to the ground in front of the crown prince.

From Latin terrēnum. Cf. Italian terreno.

teren m (plural terens)

1. terrain, ground, land, country

• tiere
• terest

teren

1. third-person plural personal infinitive of ter

From Old Dutch *terien, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, related to *teraną (“to tear, rip apart”).

tēren

1. to consume, to use up
2. to eat
3. to digest

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: teren
• Limburgish: taere

• “teren”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “teren (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Inherited from Old English teran, from Proto-West Germanic *teran, from Proto-Germanic *teraną.

• teer, teere, tere, tern, teryn, teer

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːrən/, /ˈtɛːrn/

teren (third-person singular simple present tereth, present participle terynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tar, past participle torn)

1. To tear; to split apart or off (often by ripping):
   1. To tear off a body part (often by hand).
   2. To pull out hair (or another body part).
2. To ruin; to devastate:
   1. To damage or destroy garments or hair.
   2. To demolish a building; to raze or level.
   3. (usually in the past participle) To make tattered or worn; to overuse.
3. To puncture or impale; to make a hole.
4. To lash; to strike skin with a whip.
5. (rare) To forcibly move or remove.

Weak forms occasionally appear in this verb, possibly from a Class 1 weak Old English *teran (distinct from attested strong teran).

• English: tear
• Scots: tere, teir, tair

• “tēren, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From teer (“tear”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• tere

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːrən/

teren (third-person singular simple present tereth, present participle terende, terynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tered) (rare)

1. To cry; to produce tears.

• English: tear

• “tēren, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

From tere (“tear”) +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

teren (rare)

1. plural of teer (“tear”)

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teren

1. neck, throat

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French terrain or English terrain, ultimately from Latin terrēnum.[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.rɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɛn
• Syllabification: te‧ren

teren m inan (related adjective terenowy)

1. (countable) terrain, land, turf (area of land surface together with a specific shape, vegetation and natural resources, constituting a certain whole) [+ do (genitive)] or [+ pod (accusative) = for what]

   Synonyms: kraina, krajobraz, kraj, okolica, strony

2. (countable) grounds, site (an area with defined boundaries, organized into a single whole)
3. (countable) field, site (place of action)

   Synonym: pole

4. (uncountable, colloquial) division, branch, section, subdivision, department, subsection, sector, unit (area governed by local administration or local branches of some institution or organization, perceived as opposed to the headquarters)

   Antonym: centrala

5. (countable, literary) field (area of someone's activities)

   Synonym: dziedzina

6. (countable, colloquial) splash zone (area covered by the zone of someone's operation)

   Synonym: dziedzina

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), teren is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 86 times in news, 71 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 226 times, making it the 243rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

• teren in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• teren in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French terrain, from Vulgar Latin *terrānum, from Latin terrēnum.

• IPA^(key): /teˈren/

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teren n (plural terenuri)

1. pitch (the field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played)
2. terrain, plot of land, ground, field, soil

• subteran
• țară

• teren in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from French terrain.

• IPA^(key): /těreːn/
• Hyphenation: te‧ren

tèrēn m (Cyrillic spelling тѐре̄н)

1. terrain