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Catalan
Etymology
From gerra, a borrowing of Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthern receptacle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gerro m (plural gerros)
- pitcher, vase
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كارو (gārru), itself derived from Spanish cigarro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɛroː/
- Hyphenation: ger‧ro
Noun
gerro m (plural gerro's, diminutive gerrotje n)
- (colloquial, slang) cigarette
Wollah, vandaag is m'n hoofd hayek heet beste heeft iemand gerro.- Yo, give me that cigarette. Today, I am very stressed, it would be the best if someone has a cigarette.
Latin
Etymology
From gerrae (“trifles, nonsense”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Noun
gerrō m (genitive gerrōnis); third declension
- A trifler, an idle fellow
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gerro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gerro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.