tierra
See also: Tierra
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin terra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Noun
tierra f (plural tierras)
- earth
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “tierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin terra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Noun
tierra f (plural tierres)
- ground, floor
- earth
Related terms
- terrenu
- terrícola
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin terra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtjera/ [ˈt̪je.ra]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -era
- Syllabification: tie‧rra
Noun
tierra f (plural tierras)
- (geography) land, ground (the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- Coordinate terms: mar, agua, cielo
- (geology) earth, soil (the unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth)
- Synonym: suelo
- land, terrain (an area of land or the particular features of it)
- (agriculture, also in the plural) land, terrain (reserved for growing crops)
- homeland (one's country of birth)
- Synonyms: patria, terruño
- land, country, nation, territory (a country or region)
- Synonyms: país, nación, región
- (electricity) ground, earth (a connection electrically to the earth on equipment)
- Synonym: neutro
- Antonym: línea viva
- (alchemy) earth (one of the four or five classical elements)
- Coordinate terms: agua, fuego, viento
Derived terms
- a ras de tierra
- aterrar
- aterrizar
- chanchito de tierra
- conocer la tierra que pisa
- corrimiento de tierra
- de la tierra
- Día de la Tierra
- echar por tierra
- enterrar
- en tierra
- hacer tierra
- Inglaterra
- lobo de tierra
- lombriz de tierra
- Madre Tierra
- mover cielo y tierra
- poner tierra de por medio
- poner tierra en medio
- poner tierra por medio
- sal de la tierra
- terracota
- terraformación
- terrícola
- tierra adentro
- tierra a la vista
- tierra alta
- tierra baja
- tierra batida
- Tierra del Fuego
- tierra de nadie
- tierra de promisión
- tierra firme
- tierra prometida
- tierras altas
- Tierra Santa
- tierras baldías (“badlands”)
- trágame tierra
- tragarse la tierra
Related terms
- terráqueo
- terraza
- terrazo
- terremoto
- terreno
- térreo
- terrero
- terrestre
- terrícola
- territorio
- terroso
See also
- Tierra
Proper noun
tierra f
- Alternative letter-case form of Tierra (“Earth”) (our planet, third from the Sun)
Further reading
- “tierra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- retira
- tirare
- tiraré