Masculine
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carnero

Meaning

  1. (masculine) a sheep, a ram (woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis, especially a male)
  2. (masculine) sheepskin (skin of a sheep)
  3. (masculine) mutton (flesh of sheep used as food)
  4. (masculine) strikebreaker, scab (non-unionized worker hired to replace striking workers)
  5. (masculine) warty venus

Frequency

25k
Hyphenated as
car‧ne‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaɾˈneɾo/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin (agnus) carnārius. Compare Galician and Portuguese carneiro.

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