duro

Senso

Adj

1. hard
2. firm, solid
3. hard, difficult
4. tough, resilient, strong
5. harsh, cruel, severe
6. unbearable, heavy
7. rude, offensive
8. mean, stingy, ungenerous
9. rough, uncouth
10. stiff, rigid
11. hard, erect
12. hard-boiled
13. (slang) hardcore
14. hardcore
15. (Mexico) drunk, tipsy

Noun

1. (masculine) hardball (i.e. a no-nonsense attitude)
2. (Spain,colloquial,historical,masculine) coin worth 5 pesetas

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of durar

Con trattino come

du‧ro

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈduɾo/

Etimologia

Inherited from Old Spanish duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).