FromLatinterebra(“a borer”).

terebra (pluralterebrasorterebrae)

1. Theboringovipositor of ahymenopterousinsect.
2. (historical) An Ancient Romanengine for making abreach in awall.
3. (historical, surgery) A type oftrepan.

Learned borrowing fromLatinterebra.

terebra f (pluralterebre)

1. terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)

terebra

1. inflection ofterebrare:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• trabere

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈte.re.bra/,[ˈt̪ɛrɛbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈte.re.bra/,[ˈt̪ɛːrebrä]

Fromter(ō) +‎-bra.

• terebrum

terebra f (genitiveterebrae);first declension

1. aninstrument forboring;borer;gimlet

First-declension noun.

• terebellum (see there for further descendants)
• terebrō

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

terebrā

1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofterebrō

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

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