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- Italian · borrowed fromterramare
- English todayterramare
Borrowed from Italian terramare, plural of terramara, from a dialectal variant of terra marna (“marl-earth”) or terra mala (“bad earth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
terramare
Today it means: Bronze Age lake dwellings and settlements of the Po valley in northern Italy, characterized by the presence of ammoniacal earthy deposit (black marl) in mounds. Full definition →
Italian terramare