overo
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English
Etymology
From Spanish overo (“piebald”).
Noun
overo (plural overos)
- A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
- 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:
- The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.
See also
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *falvārium, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.
Pronunciation
Adjective
overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “overo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16