morro
English
Etymology
Noun
morro (plural morros)
Usage notes
- A Morro Castle is a castle on a hill.
Catalan
Noun
morro m (plural morros)
- snout (long nose of an animal)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “morro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Noun
morro m (plural morros)
- snout
- Synonym: fociño
- (figurative, colloquial, in the plural) lips
- Synonym: beizos
Related terms
References
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “morro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.
Noun
morro m (plural morros)
- a landform with elevation intermediate between that of a hill and that of a small mountain
- (Brazil, especially Rio de Janeiro) a slum built on a hill or on uneven ground
See also
- (hill): cerro (usually smaller than a morro), colina (smaller than a morro), monte (larger than a morro), outeiro
- (slum): bairro de lata (Portugal), favela (Brazil), musseque (Angola)
Etymology 2
Inflected form of morrer (“to die”).
Verb
morro
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.
Pronunciation
Noun
morro m (plural morros)
- hill
- snout (long nose of an animal)
- (figuratively) mouth
- hillock
- cheek; cheekiness
- pebble
- headland
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Further reading
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- English nouns
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- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician colloquialisms
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
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- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
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- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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- Portuguese terms with multiple etymologies
- Portuguese terms with unknown etymologies
- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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