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Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈtero/
- Hyphenation: es‧te‧ro
Noun
estero (accusative singular esteron, plural esteroj, accusative plural esterojn)
- ester
Ido
Noun
estero (plural esteri)
- ester
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exterus, from exter (“of another country”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
estero (feminine estera, masculine plural esteri, feminine plural estere)
- foreign (of another country), overseas
- Synonyms: forestiero, straniero, oltremare
Noun
estero m (plural esteri)
- foreign countries, understood collectively
See also
Further reading
- estero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈteɾo/
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: es‧te‧ro
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin aestuārium.
Noun
estero m (plural esteros)
- river delta
- Synonym: estuario
- shallow lake, pond
- lagoon
- Synonym: laguna
- (Chile) brook
- Synonyms: arroyo, riachuelo
- (Colombia, Venezuela) water reservoir
- Synonyms: charca, represa
- (Philippines) arm of an estuary or river
- Synonym: brazo
Etymology 2
Verb
estero
- first-person singular present indicative of esterar
Further reading
- “estero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 116
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish estero (“river delta”).
Pronunciation
Noun
estero (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜓ)
- estuary; inlet canal of a river
See also
Anagrams