tetro

See also: Tetro

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tetrao.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtetro]
  • Rhymes: -etro
  • Hyphenation: te‧tro

Noun

tetro (accusative singular tetron, plural tetroj, accusative plural tetrojn)

  1. (rare) black grouse; (Fundamento) grouse

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin taetrum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.tro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtro
  • Hyphenation: tè‧tro

Adjective

tetro (feminine tetra, masculine plural tetri, feminine plural tetre)

  1. gloomy, sullen
  2. bleak, dismal, grim

Derived terms

Further reading
  • tetro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

tētrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tēter

References
  • “tetro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tetro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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