morro

Meaning

  1. (masculine) hill
  2. (masculine) snout (long nose of an animal)
  3. (figuratively, masculine) mouth
  4. (masculine) hillock
  5. (masculine) cheek; cheekiness
  6. (masculine) pebble
  7. (masculine) headland
  8. (Mexico, masculine) guy; dude; kiddo
  9. (El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, colloquial, masculine) Mexican calabash (Crescentia alata)

Frequency

24k
Hyphenated as
mo‧rro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmoro/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.

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