membro
Meaning
- (by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) member (one who officially belongs to a group)
- (by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) member; limb
- (by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) each part of a whole
- (by-personal-gender,colloquial,feminine,masculine) member; penis
- (by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) each element of a sentence
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mem‧bro
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmẽ.bɾu/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).
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