Perhaps fromProto-Italic*terzeznos, from*terzos +‎*-nos, the first of which fromProto-Indo-European*tersos, neuters-stem to the root*ters-(“dry”).^[1]
Alternatively, from thelocative form*terrai ofterra and-nus.^[2]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /terˈreː.nus/,[t̪ɛrˈreːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /terˈre.nus/,[t̪erˈrɛːnus]

terrēnus (feminineterrēna,neuterterrēnum);first/second-declension adjective

1. earthly
2. terrestrial

First/second-declension adjective.

• terrēna
• terrēnitās(Mediaeval Latin)
• terrēnum

• “terrēnus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terrenus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "terrenus", 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)
• terrēnus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages1,560–1.
• “terrēnus” on page 1,928 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “terrenus”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, page1,024/1

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