esquerdo

Meaning

esquerdar

to support leftist political views or ideas

left

left-hand

sinister

Opposite of

direito

senèstre

esquèr

αριστερός

linker-

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/isˈkeʁ.du/

Cognate with Spanish

Cognate with Catalan

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese esquerdo, from Old Spanish exquerdo, from Basque ezkerra, absolutive of ezker (“left hand; left side”), from Proto-Basque *ezkeR (“left hand”). Cognate with Asturian izquierdu, Catalan esquerre, Galician esquerdo, xiquerdo, Ladino izkierdo, Leonese esquierdu, Spanish izquierdo.

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