terr-, terra-, -ter +

Revolving around or surrounding the earth.

1. To dig up or remove from a grave or a tomb; to exhume.
2. To bring to public notice; to disclose.

The act of digging up something; especially, a corpse that has been buried.

1. Originating, located, or occurring outside earth or its atmosphere (outer space); such as, intelligent extraterrestrial life.
2. Originating from sources other than the earth; such as, the extraterrestrial sun.

1. Extraterrestrial beings or life forms.
2. A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere: "There are those who claim that there are living beings that come from other planets or other outer-space places."

The ideal amount of global horizontal radiation that a location on Earth would receive if there were no intervening atmosphere or clouds; used as the reference amount to which actual solar energy measurements are compared.

1. Located outside territorial boundaries; such as, fishing in extraterritorial waters.
2. Of or relating to people who are exempt from the legal jurisdiction of the country in which they reside.

1. Exemption from local legal jurisdiction; such as, that granted to foreign diplomats.
2. Immunity from the local laws of a certain area; as a result of diplomatic negotiation.

1. Inhabiting streams and the surrounding land.
2. Pertaining to the land-surface of the globe and its rivers.

1. To place in a grave or tomb; to bury.
2. To put (a dead body) in the earth; to bury.

The act or ritual of interring or burying in the ground or in a tomb.

The law of the land.

Surrounded nearly or completely by dry land. A reference to large bodies of water; such as, lakes or seas.

Whenever you hear the word mediterranean, do you think of that specific place and perhaps of the great cultures that have surrounded it? You should know that the word can also apply to any large body of water that is surrounded completely or almost completely by dry land. This usage goes back to the use in Late Latin of the Latin word mediterraneus, the source of our word, as part of the name Mediterraneum mare for the mostly landlocked Mediterranean Sea.

Keep in mind that Latin mediterraneus, which is derived from medius, "the middle of, the heart of," and terra, "land", in Classical Latin actually meant "remote from the coast, inland".

In Late Latin, in referring to the sea, mediterraneus probably originally meant "in the middle of the earth" rather than "surrounded by land", because to the Mediterranean cultures without knowledge of much of the earth, the Mediterranean Sea was in the center of the world. Our word mediterranean is first recorded in English, in 1594, as the name of the sea.

An inland sea surrounded by Europe, Asia, Asia Minor, the Near East, and Africa. It connects with the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar; with the Black Sea through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus; and with the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.