The Latin word terra
Word terra
Meaning earth
See also Proto-Indo-European: *ters- ‘dry’
Lycian: tere ‘territory, district’
Synonyms humus, ager

Other words that might be of interest
fossa ‘ditch’, nemus ‘grove, glade’, limus ‘slime, mud, mire’, arbor ‘tree’, silva ‘forest’, saxum ‘stone’, lapis ‘stone’, petra ‘stone’, harena ‘sand’, pulvis ‘dust’, mons ‘mountain’, calculus ‘pebble, stone’