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Galician
Adjective
herbívoro (feminine herbívora, masculine plural herbívoros, feminine plural herbívoras)
- herbivorous (feeding only on plants)
Noun
herbívoro m (plural herbívoros)
- herbivore (plant-eating organism)
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
From French herbivore, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: her‧bí‧vo‧ro
Adjective
herbívoro (feminine herbívora, masculine plural herbívoros, feminine plural herbívoras)
- herbivorous (feeding only on plants)
- Synonym: fitófago
Noun
herbívoro m (plural herbívoros)
- herbivore (plant-eating organism)
Further reading
- “herbívoro”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “herbívoro”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “herbívoro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “herbívoro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “herbívoro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “herbívoro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin herbivorus. By surface analysis, Latin herba + Latin -i + Latin vorō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɾˈbiboɾo/
- Rhymes: -iboɾo
- Syllabification: her‧bí‧vo‧ro
Adjective
herbívoro (feminine herbívora, masculine plural herbívoros, feminine plural herbívoras)
- herbivorous
Noun
herbívoro m (plural herbívoros)
- herbivore
Further reading