zimbro

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from an earlier form *jĩbro < *jĩebro, from Vulgar Latin *iiniperus, jiniperus (attested in the Appendix Probi), cf. also *jeniperus, *jinepirus, Late Latin zyniperum, from Latin jūniperus, iūniperus. Compare Galician cimbro, Spanish enebro. Doublet of the learned borrowing junípero.

Noun

zimbro m (plural zimbros)

  1. juniper (shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus)

Synonyms
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