Where does “Terrain” come from?

Terrain (German) comes from French terrain, from Old French terrain, from Vulgar Latin terranum, from Latin terrenum, from Latin Terra, from Proto-Indo-European ters- — dry.

Terrain (German): territory, ground, terrain

Definitions

  1. territory, ground, terrain

Ancestry of “Terrain”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchterrainground, landscape; field; lot, plot, parcel
2Old Frenchterrain—
3Vulgar Latinterranum—
4Latinterrenumnominative neuter singular of terrēnus;...
5LatinTerraTerra goddess of the Earth
6Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters- →