tetra

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish, ultimately from Ancient Greek τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos, “square, quadrilateral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing, fin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.tɹə/

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tetra (plural tetras)

1. Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:

     Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

tetra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

< trademark 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 taxonomic name Tetragonopterus.

tetra

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

• “tetra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 January 2024

• terat

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

tetra

1. feminine singular of tetro

tetra m (invariable)

1. tetra (fish)

• 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.tra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtra
• Syllabification: te‧tra

Learned borrowing 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtetɾa/ [ˈt̪e.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: te‧tra

tetra

1. feminine singular of tetro