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barro
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from Paleo-Hispanic, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).
Cognate with Portuguese barro, Asturian barru and Spanish barro.
barro m (plural barros)
- mud
- Synonym: lama
- clay
- Synonym: arxila
1484, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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
barro
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “barro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “barro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Borrowed from Spanish barro (“mud; clay”), from Vulgar Latin *barrum, from Paleo-Hispanic.
barro m (plural barri)
- (uncountable) a clay used to make pottery
- Synonym: bucchero
- a piece of pottery made from this clay
- Synonym: bucchero
Gender change from barra (“helm, tiller”).
barro m (plural barri)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
barro
- 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
barro
barrō
- Rhymes: -aʁu
- Hyphenation: bar‧ro
From Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from Paleo-Hispanic, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).
Cognate with Galician, Mirandese, and Spanish barro, Asturian barru.
barro m (plural barros)
barro

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from Paleo-Hispanic, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).
barro m (plural barros)
- limo m
From Latin varus (“pustule in the face”).
barro m (plural barros)
- (dermatology) pustule (caused by acne), closed comedo
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
barro
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
barro
- “barro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10