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
"Postera Phoeba lustrabat lampade terras," continued Brother Emmanuel, inexorably running his horny finger-nail beneath the line, "humentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram—" the lesson dragged along.
From Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
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
Being in town the house had no garden; but the terras with its big jars of plants seemed a favourite place for taking the air.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
