barro
Meaning
-
- (masculine) mud
- (masculine) clay
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bar‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈba.ʁu/
Etymology
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 Galician, Mirandese, and Spanish barro, Asturian barru.
New
barrar
- to abate (to bar, to except)
- to bar (to obstruct the passage of)
- to debar (to exclude or shut out; to bar)
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