terebra

From Latin terebra (“a borer”).

terebra (plural terebras or terebrae)

1. The ovipositor of a female hymenopteran, that pierces.
2. (historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.
3. (historical, surgery) A type of trepan.

• “terebra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin terebra.

terebra f (plural terebre)

1. terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)

terebra

1. inflection of terebrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• trabere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ.rɛ.bra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛː.re.bra]

From ter(ō) +‎ -bra.

• terebrum

terebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension

1. an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet

First-declension noun.

• terebellum (see there for further descendants)
• terebrō

• → Italian: terebra
• → Portuguese: térebra
• → Spanish: terebra
• → Translingual: Terebra

terebrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of terebrō

• “terebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "terebra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “terebra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “terebra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “terebra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin terēbra.

• IPA^(key): /teˈɾebɾa/ [t̪eˈɾe.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ebɾa
• Syllabification: te‧re‧bra

terebra f (plural terebras)

1. (historical) a terebra (An Ancient Roman engine) [from 16th c.]
2. (historical, medicine, obsolete) a terebra; a trepan, trephine
3. any small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs that belongs to the genus Terebra.

• “terebra”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN