membro

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Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -embro
  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)

  1. member
  2. (anatomy) limb

Derived terms

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro m (plural membros)

  1. extremity
  2. member

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/
  • Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
  • Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Noun

membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)

  1. member (one who belongs to a group; an element of a set)
  2. penis
    Synonym: pene
  3. (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb
    Synonym: arto
  4. (anatomy) arm
    Synonym: braccio
Usage notes
  • The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.
Related terms

Further reading

  • membro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

membro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of membrare

References

  1. ^ membro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Noun

membrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of membrum

References

  • “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • membro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)

  1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)
    Synonym: participante
  2. member; limb
    Hyponyms: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna
  3. each part of a whole
    Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço
  4. (colloquial) member; penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
  5. (grammar) each element of a sentence
    Holonyms: frase, oração, periodo, sentença

Usage notes

This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.

Derived terms

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