The corpus record — Latin

terra

dry land, earth

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 3 · 154.64/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 84 · 75.63/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 1 · 60.24/10k
De Rerum Natura 267 · 54.79/10k
Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Georgicon 61 · 43.1/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 47 · 41.88/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 44 · 39.06/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 38.76/10k
De agri cultura 56 · 35.8/10k
Pharsalia 180 · 35.34/10k
de Natura Deorum 118 · 33/10k

Densest 12 of 279 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. terra — de Vaan

dry land, earth

2. terra — Lewis & Short

the earth

3. terra — Walde–Hofmann

ae f

Attestations

terra Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.3.3
terrarum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5.4
terrarum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.6
terra Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.1
terrarum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.4
terris Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.11

6 of 6,272 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 630; entry #1800 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan pp. 711-712; entry #11805 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1581; entry #2981 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.