teren

Significado

1. (intransitive) to eat or drink what is necessary to survive
2. (intransitive) to live, survive by consumption
3. (archaic,intransitive) to rot, to decompose, to waste away
4. (archaic,intransitive) to be digested

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈteːrə(n)/

Etimología

From Middle Dutch tēren (“to destroy, to use (up)”), from Old Dutch *terien, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, related to *teraną (“to tear, rip apart”). Cognate with German zehren. Also related with English tear (“to rip”).