(adj.adv.) : tĕrĕs, ĕtis, adj.tero; cf. Gr. τέρην, tender
* Rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth, etc.: teres est in longitudine rotundatum, quales asseres natura ministrat,Fest. p. 363 Müll. (class.; syn. rotundus).
* Lit.: stipites,Caes. B. G. 7, 73: palus,Col. 4, 33, 4: trunci arborum,Verg. A. 6, 207: oliva,id. E. 8, 16: virga,Ov. M. 2, 135: fusus,id. ib. 6, 22: hastile,Liv. 21, 8, 10: mucro, Verg. A. 7, 665: lapillus,Ov. M. 10, 260: (fundae) habena,Verg. A. 11, 579.—Of parts of the body: cervix,round, slender,Lucr. 1, 35, Verg. A. 8, 633; so, collum,Ov. M. 10, 113: brachiolum,Cat. 61, 181. surae, Hor. C. 2, 4, 21, Ov. M. 11, 80: membra,Suet. Caes. 45: digiti,Ov. A. A. 1, 622, hence, of the form: puer,Hor. Epod. 11, 28.—Of other objects: plagae,tightly twisted, firmly woven,Hor. C. 1, 1, 28 strophium, Cat. 64, 65: zona,Ov. F. 2, 320: gemma,Verg. A. 5, 313: iaspis, Claud Rapt. Pros. 2, 40: catena,Luc. 3, 565: filum,Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 80: mitra,Claud. in Eutr. 2, 185: coma, curling, curly, Varr. ap Non. 328, 12.
* Trop., in gen., smooth, polished, elegani: (sapiens) teres atque rotundus,Hor. S. 2, 7, 86, imitated by Aus. Idyll. 16, 4: Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae,Cic. Or. 9, 27: teretes aures intellegensque judicium,id. Opt. Gen. 4, 11: vox in disputationibus,smooth, without impediment,Quint. 11, 3, 64: oratio plena, sed tamen teres,rounded off, polished,Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199: Ciceroni mollius teretiusque visum est, fretu scribere quam freto,Gell. 13, 20, 15.—Sup. and adv. seem not to occur.