terne
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɜːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /tɝn/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: tern; turn (fern–fir–fur merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French terne,[1] from Middle French, from Old French terne (“dim, dull”), from Frankish *darnī (“concealed, hidden; secret”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark; dirty”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“to darken, dim”).
Adjective
[edit]terne (comparative more terne, superlative most terne)
- Colourless, drab, dull.
Translations
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From terneplate,[2] probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (see etymology 1) plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).
Noun
[edit]terne (countable and uncountable, plural ternes)
- (also attributively) An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel.
- Synonym of terneplate (“thin iron or steel sheeting coated with this alloy”)
Etymology 3
[edit]A variant of tern.
Noun
[edit]terne (plural ternes)
- Obsolete spelling of tern (“any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail”). [17th c.]
References
[edit]- ^ Compare “terne, adj.1 (and n.1)”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
- ^ “terne, adj.2 and n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018; “terne, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French, from Old French terne (“dull, dim”), from Frankish *darnī (“hidden, secret”).
Adjective
[edit]terne (plural ternes)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]terne m (plural ternes)
- (obsolete) trinity, gathering of three people
- (backgammon, dice games) double-three
- (bingo) three in a row
Further reading
[edit]- “terne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈter.ne/, [ˈt̪ɛrnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ne/, [ˈt̪ɛrne]
Numeral
[edit]terne
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]terne f or m (definite singular terna or ternen, indefinite plural terner, definite plural ternene)
References
[edit]- “terne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse þerna. Akin to English tern.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]terne f (definite singular terna, indefinite plural terner, definite plural ternene)
References
[edit]- “terne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romani
[edit]Adjective
[edit]terne
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]terne
- inflection of ternar:
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