terno

Meaning

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
ter‧no
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɛʁ.nu/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese terno, from Latin tenerum, with metathesis (compare Spanish tierno), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Compare with its doublet tenro.

Cognate with Spanish
Spanish
tierno

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