Etymology

terrain

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Today it means: A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks. Full definition →

French terrain ← Latin terrenum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromterrenum“land, ground”
  2. French · borrowed fromterrain
  3. English todayterrain

Unadapted borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.