cerro

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See also: Cerro and cerró

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan cerro, from Latin cirrus. Doublet of cirrus, a learned borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

  1. fiber cleaned and ready for spinning

Derived terms

References

  • “cerro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cerro, from Latin cirrus (curl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθero̝/, (western) /ˈsero̝/

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

  1. hill, hillock
    Synonyms: outeiro, teso
  2. dorsal fin
  3. (in the plural) hard scales along the sides of the Atlantic horse mackerel
    Synonym: serra
  4. yarn of clean flax; strick
    Synonym: estriga
    • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 343:
      It. ....... arestre de lyno en que son viinte et seys cerros.
      It. ... plait of linen, in which there are twenty-six yarns
    • 1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:
      Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.
      The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the stricks on the distaff, for the year's cloth.
  5. flax fiver
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Etymology 2

Verb

cerro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cerrar

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin cerrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛr.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrro
  • Hyphenation: cèr‧ro

Noun

cerro m (plural cerri)

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

cerrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cerrus

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cirrus (curl of hair; mane or forelock of a horse), comparing a hill to the head of a horse.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

  1. little hill
    Synonyms: colina, monte, morro, outeiro

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

Verb

cerro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cerrar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cirrus (tuft, crest). For the semantic relation, cf. the meanings of English crest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθero/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsero/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ero
  • Syllabification: ce‧rro

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

  1. hill
    Synonyms: colina, loma

Derived terms

Further reading