terrasse
See also: Terrasse and terrassé
English
Etymology
From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Noun
terrasse (plural terrasses)
- (Quebec English) terrace, patio
- (heraldry) A representation of the ground or a terrace, serving as the base for another object.
Verb
terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)
- To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
- 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:
- However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.
- 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:
- Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.
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Anagrams
- Resetars, asserter, rearsets, reassert, serrates
Danish
Etymology
From French terrasse (“terrace”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tarasə/, [tˢaˈʁɑsə]
Noun
terrasse c (singular definite terrassen, plural indefinite terrasser)
- terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
- (heraldry) compartment
Declension
Declension of terrasse
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | terrasse | terrassen | terrasser | terrasserne |
| genitive | terrasses | terrassens | terrassers | terrassernes |
Related terms
- terrassere (verb)
- terrassevin c
Further reading
- “terrasse” in Den Danske Ordbog
terrasse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Etymology
From terre, probably influenced by Old Occitan terrassa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ.ʁas/, /te.ʁas/
Audio (file)
Noun
terrasse f (plural terrasses)
- terrace
Descendants
- → Danish: terrasse
- → German: Terrasse
- → Romanian: terasă
- → Turkish: teras
Verb
terrasse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of terrer
Verb
terrasse
- inflection of terrasser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “terrasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- resteras, serrâtes, stèreras, stéreras, terseras, tressera
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.
Noun
terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrasser, definite plural terrassene)
- terrace
Derived terms
- takterrasse
References
- “terrasse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin terra, via Old Occitan terrassa and French terrasse.
Noun
terrasse m (definite singular terrassen, indefinite plural terrassar, definite plural terrassane)
- terrace
Derived terms
- takterrasse
References
- “terrasse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.