terra
noun
earth; land.
terras
-
pluralof terra.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The -que should of course be taken with terras.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
It was the voice of warning which he ever heard repeating to him the words— Heu, fuge crudeles terras, fuge litus avarum687.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Referring to the results of the great discovery, Lope beautifully says that it gave— Al Rey infinitas terras Y á Dios infinitas almas.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
Science says that every thing is a lie, and would reduce every thing to figures and lines, not only maria ac terras, where we are, but coelumque profundum, where God is.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
