barro

barro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of barrar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).

Cognate with Portuguese barro, Asturian barru and Spanish barro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaro̝/

barro m (plural barros)

1. mud

   Synonym: lama

2. clay
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 445:

     cinco mil ladrillos ben cozidos e de boo barro

     five thousand bricks, correctly fired and made of good clay

   Synonym: arxila

barro

1. Archaic form of barrio.

• Barral
• Barreal
• Barro
• Dobarro

• “barro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “barro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “barro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “barro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “barro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ro/
• Rhymes: -arro
• Hyphenation: bàr‧ro

Borrowed from Spanish barro (“mud; clay”), from Vulgar Latin *barrum, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

barro m (plural barri)

1. (uncountable) A clay used to make pottery.

   Synonym: bucchero

2. A piece of pottery made from this clay.

   Synonym: bucchero

Gender change from barra (“helm, tiller”).

barro m (plural barri)

1. (nautical) boom

   Synonym: boma

See the etymology of the main entry.

barro

1. first-person singular present indicative of barrare

• borra

• barro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• barro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

barro m (Latin spelling)

1. clay

barro m (Latin spelling)

1. earthen

barrō

1. dative singular of barrus
2. ablative singular of barrus

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁu/
• Hyphenation: bar‧ro

From Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).

Cognate with Galician barro, Mirandese barro, Asturian barru and Spanish barro.

barro m (plural barros)

1. mud
2. clay

• argila

barro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of barrar

barro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of barrir

• Rhymes: -aro
• See also: barra, berro, borro, burro

Barro (mud).

From Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).

barro m (plural barros)

1. (geology) mud

   Synonyms: fango, lodo

2. (materials) clay

   Synonym: arcilla

• embarrar (verb)

• limo m

From Latin varus (“pustule in the face”)

barro m (plural barros)

1. (dermatology) pustule (caused by acne), closed comedo

• comedón m
• espinilla f

See barrer.

barro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of barrer.

See barrar

barro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of barrar.

• árbor, borra, obrar, robar