Where does “teren” come from?

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

teren (Romanian): pitch; terrain, plot of land, ground, field, soil

Definitions

  1. pitch; terrain, plot of land, ground, field, soil

Ancestry of “teren”, 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- →Every word from Latin Terra →Every word from Latin terrenum →