barro

Meaning

1. (masculine) mud
2. (masculine) clay

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbaro̝/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Celtic; compare Middle Irish broch (“waste, dregs”) and Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”).
Cognate with Portuguese barro, Asturian barru and Spanish barro.

Sentences

Fóra da política é profesor de francés no instituto de Barro .

Outside of politics, he is a professor of French at Barro High School.