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語源 1

Borrowed from French terne,^[1] from Middle French, from Old French terne (“dim, dull”), from Frankish *darnī (“concealed, hidden; secret”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark; dirty”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“to darken, dim”).

形容詞

terne (comparative more terne, superlative most terne)

1. Colourless, drab, dull.

語源 2

From terneplate,^[2] probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (see etymology 1) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).

名詞

terne (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ternes)

1. (also attributively) An alloy coating made of lead and tin (または, more recently, zinc かつ tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel.
2. Synonym of terneplate (“thin iron または steel sheeting coated with this alloy”)

語源 3

A variant of tern.

名詞

terne (複数形 ternes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tern (“any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail”) [17th c.]

参照

Further reading

• terne on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, rente, treen

Latin

形容詞

terne

1. vocative masculine singular of ternus