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Is "Terr" short for "terre", meaning "Earth", or "terrible"? Maybe it's both? --24.46.164.83 22:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Since the novel is written in French, and French lacks a cognate for "terrible", I think it's safe to say Terr is short for terre. Rpresser 21:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The English version of Fantastic Planet has a scene where Terr is named: the father of the owner suggests a name like "Fido" or "Trusty" (what English-speaker would consider typical names for dogs), then mentions that "he's a real terror", which the owner of Terr pulls the name from. The English subtitles--which typically don't follow the English dialogue and is instead based on a translation of the French dialogue--still mentions the word "terror". - 66.92.0.61 (talk) 10:50, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In the English translation of the novel, "Terr" is short for "Terror," which does have the French cognate "terreur," so this is likely the case. I have not changed the entry, however, since I cannot consult the French original & the French Wikipedia does not address the issue. I have changed the English translation of the title. "En série" literally means "in series," "one after the other," or "mass production." I have chosen "linked together" to express the literal concept, as there is a scene in which the oms link themselves together to create a giant battery. The previous translation had been "Oms by the dozen." Giordanob (talk) 22:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have read the French version of the novel. *Terr* is short for the French word "terrible". Not sure why an earlier commentator thought French lacked this word, but that is not true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:10D:C090:200:0:0:7:E5E2 (talk) 21:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
But térrible in French has the sense of our word terrifying, as in the term enfant térrible (a problem child or little horror); whereas, in English, terrible has come to mean really bad or just awful. Nuttyskin (talk) 07:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
