piro

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See also: Piro, piró, -piro, and piro-

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Etymology

From Latin pirum. Compare French poire, Italian pera, English pear.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iro
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ro

Noun

piro (accusative singular piron, plural piroj, accusative plural pirojn)

  1. pear (edible fruit produced by a pear tree)
    Ĉu vi ŝatus torton faritan kun piroj? ― Would you like a pie made with pears?

Derived terms

Ido

Pronunciation

Noun

piro (plural piri)

  1. pear (fruit)

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

pirō

  1. dative/ablative singular of pirus

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *pilo (compare with Samoan piro, Tahitian piro (“dirty, smelly”) and Hawaiian pilo (“foul odour, halitosis, pollution”)). Maybe related to pirau (“to decay, to fester”).

Adjective

piro

  1. rotten, putrid
  2. smelly
  3. disgusting
  4. offensive

Verb

piro

  1. to rot
  2. to disgust

Noun

piro

  1. rot
  2. intestines

Related terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 341
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “koo-piro”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

  • “piro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Paraguayan Guaraní

Etymology

Compound of pire +‎ -’o.

Pronunciation

Verb

piro

  1. to peel, skin

Portuguese

Verb

piro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pirar

Rapa Nui

Adjective

piro

  1. rotten

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiɾo/
  • Rhymes: -iɾo
  • Syllabification: pi‧ro

Etymology 1

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Noun

piro m (plural piros)

  1. a member of the Yine people of Peru
    Synonym: yine

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

piro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pirar

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