terr-, terra-, -ter +

The peace of the world.

1. Universal peace.

2. A motto found on Roman coins.

This fair land is the gift of God.

Not growing or living entirely on land; partly terrestrial.

May the earth rest lightly upon thee.

An ancient inscription often found on Roman tombstones.

It is pleasant when safe on the land to watch the great struggle of another out on a swelling sea, amid winds churning the deep. -Lucretius

Subterranean.

1. Situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground.
2. Hidden; secret; such as, subterranean motives for murder.

1. Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterraneous springs; a subterraneous passage.
2. Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); such as, subterraneous motives for murder.

Underground; subterranean.

Receive, O Earth, what was taken from thy body.

Epitaph of Pope Gregory the Great.

Also known as, Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for "the unknown land of the South", it was an imaginary continent, appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.

It was introduced by Aristotle. Aristotle's ideas were later expanded by Ptolemy, a Greek cartographer from the first century A.D., who believed that the Indian Ocean was enclosed on the south by land.

1. A raised level place for walking, with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like; especially, a raised walk in a garden, or a level surface formed in front of a house on naturally sloping ground, or on the bank of a river.
2. A horizontal shelf or bench on the side of a hill, or sloping ground.
3. A row of houses on a level above the general surface, or on the face of a rising ground; loosely, a row of houses of uniform style, on a site slightly, if at all, raised above the level of the roadway.
4. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
5. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
6. About 1515, "gallery, portico, balcony", later "flat, raised place for walking" (1575), from Modern French terrace, from Old French terrasse "platform (built on or supported by a mound of earth)", from Vulgar Latin terracea, feminine of terraceus "earthen, earthy" from Latin terra "earth, land". As a natural formation in geology, traced back to 1674.

Earthen or of the earth.

1. A series of level, fairly narrow strips of ground constructed on a hillside that would otherwise be too steep for cultivation.
2. The act or process of creating a terrace or terraces.

1. A hard, semifired, waterproof ceramic clay used in pottery and building construction.
2. Ceramic wares made of this material.