terabyte
/teɾabite/from spelling rules
The Spanish word for terabyte is terabyte.
terabyte refers to the unit of digital information consisting of 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Meaning: 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (noun)
Which one should you use?
While terabyte is the standard term, people may use tera in casual conversation to refer to the same unit.
How does it change in a sentence?
The plural form of terabyte is terabytes.
How do you pronounce it?
/teɾabite/
Did you know?
- While terabyte is borrowed from English, the prefix tera comes from the Greek word teras, which means 'monster'. It was chosen to reflect the enormous size of the unit.
- In some Spanish-speaking regions, you may hear the term teraocteto. This is because octeto is the formal Spanish translation for 'byte', based on the eight bits that compose it.
- Because terabyte is an English loanword, it follows a unique gender pattern where it is almost always treated as masculine, el terabyte, despite not having a native Spanish root.
Examples in context
- Un terabyte de informaciónA terabyte of information
- Un disco duro de un terabyteA one terabyte hard drive
- Ese disco duro tiene un montón de teras de capacidadThat hard drive has a lot of teras of capacity
- Descargué una película de 2 TBI downloaded a 2 TB movie
- Mi disco duro tiene dos terabytes de capacidadMy hard drive has two terabytes of capacity
- Necesito un terabyte de espacio libre.I need one terabyte of free space.
- Ese disco duro tiene un terabyte.That hard drive has one terabyte.
- Descargué más de un terabyte de datos.I downloaded more than one terabyte of data.
Example conversation
Alejandro is helping Elena with her new computer.
- Elena¿Cuánta memoria tiene este ordenador?How much memory does this computer have?
- AlejandroTiene un terabyte de capacidad.It has one terabyte of capacity.
- ElenaEs suficiente para mis archivos.It is enough for my files.
- AlejandroSí, Elena, es bastante espacio.Yes, Elena, it is quite a lot of space.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
