terrestris

== Latin == === Alternative forms === terrester === Etymology === Perhaps from Proto-Italic *terzestris, from *terzos +‎ *-tris, the first of which would also be the base of terrēnus. The suffix -tris is possibly also seen in bimēnstris, as well as palūster, equester, pedester. Reanalysis as terr-estris, as if derived from terra, would have yielded a new suffix -estris which is found in e.g. campester and silvestris. From a synchronic perspective of Classical Latin, terrestris indeed contained the -estris-suffix. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛrˈrɛs.trɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [terˈrɛs.tris] === Adjective === terrestris (neuter terrestre); third-declension two-termination adjective Of or pertaining to the earth or land; terrestrial, earthly. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “terrestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "terrestris", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “terrestris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.