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noun, feminine

terre

/tɛʁ/

noun, feminine/tɛʁ/plural: terres

earth; soil; land, property (delimited area)

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.