louro

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese louro (“dark coloured”), from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Cognate with Portuguese louro.

Pronunciation

Adjective

louro (feminine loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

  1. dark blonde; blonde; golden
  2. black; dark brown; dark purple
    Synonyms: negro, preto
    • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:
      Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
      mais louro do que é o carbon
      hay procesos, e un tinteiro
      feito de corno de boy.
      Over the cloth of a table,
      blacker than coal,
      there are lawsuits and an inkwell
      made with ox horn

Noun

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

  1. laurel tree
    Synonym: loureiro
    • 1409, Pensado Tomé, edited by José Luis, Tratado de Albeitaria, page 109:
      Para esto val a manteiga mesturada con olio de louro
      For this is good the butter mixed with laurel oil
  2. blonde person
  3. boulder, craig

Derived terms

See also

References

  • “louro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “louro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “louro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “louro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “louro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -owɾu
  • Hyphenation: lou‧ro

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese louro, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Noun

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

  1. blond (fair haired person)
    Synonyms: (Santa Catarina, Brazil, slang) alemão, (Northeast, Brazil, slang) galego, (Paraná, Brazil, slang) polaco
    Coordinate terms: moreno, ruivo
  2. blond (pale golden brown colour)
    Synonym: fulvo
  3. laurel (plant)
    Synonyms: lauro, loureiro
  4. laurel leaf, used as food
Quotations

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Adjective

louro (feminine loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

  1. blonde (having blonde hair)
  2. blonde (blonde coloured)
    Synonyms: fúlvido, fulvo
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

Related terms

Etymology 2

Possibly Maori nori.

Noun

louro m (plural louros)

  1. parrot
    Synonym: papagaio
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

References

  1. ^ “louro” in iDicionário Aulete.
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