Masculine

arquero

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (masculine) archer
  2. (Latin-America, masculine) goalkeeper

Frequency

20k
Hyphenated as
ar‧que‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aɾˈkeɾo/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish arquero, possibly corresponding to Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Analyzable as arco (“bow”) + -ero. Sense "goalkeeper" derived from arco (“goal”) + -ero

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