cervo

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Meaning

deer

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Hyphenated as
cer‧vo
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈseʁ.vu/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus (“deer, stag”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with Galician cervo, Spanish ciervo, Catalan cérvol, Occitan cèrvi, French cerf, Italian cervo and Romanian cerb.

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