Translation
terrain, ground; plot of land, grounds
Word origin
From French terrain, which goes back through Vulgar Latin terrenum to Latin terra ('earth, land'). Esperanto already had tero from the same root, and borrowed terrain separately for the piece of ground you can walk over.
- Origin
- French, from Latin
- Root
- terrenum
- English cognates
- terrain, terrestrial, terrace
Examples
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They bought a plot of land by the river.
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The grounds around the castle belong to the town.
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The ground behind the house is large and green.
Three words share the same Latin ancestor and do different jobs. is earth as a substance, and capitalised it is the planet. is soil, the stuff you dig and plant in. is a bounded piece of ground considered as a surface or a site: the plot you buy, the grounds of a house, the terrain an army crosses. It also does the figurative work English gives to ground, as in .
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