tetra

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish.

tetra (plural tetras)

1. Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums.

• Ratte, Treat, atter, ratte, tater, teart, treat

• IPA^(key): /ˈtetrɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞t̪rɑ]
• Rhymes: -etrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tet‧ra

< trade name Tetra Pak

tetra

1. Tetra Pak (type of container)

• Often used as headword in a compound term, with a modifier that specifies the content, e.g. mehutetra (“Tetra Pak of juice”).

• tetrapakkaus

From English tetra, from translingual Tetragonopterus.

tetra

1. tetra (fish of the family Characidae, commonly kept as aquarium fish)

• terat

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.tra/
• Rhymes: -ɛtra
• Hyphenation: tè‧tra

tetra

1. feminine singular of tetro

tetra m (invariable)

1. tetra

• retta

tētra

1. inflection of tēter:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

tētrā

1. ablative feminine singular of tēter

• tetra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtra
• Syllabification: tet‧ra

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-).

tetra f

1. terry (fabric)
2. (colloquial) Clipping of tetrachlorometan.

Borrowed from English tetra.

tetra f

1. tetra (fish)

• tetra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tetra in Polish dictionaries at PWN