Noun: curro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | curro |
| Plural m | curros |
Sample Sentences
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et outro marco esta no monte a su a mota da torre, et outro ao poonbar da torre, et outro esta na carreyra a sobre lo curro da torre (and another boundary stone is in the hill, by the mottle of the tower, and another at the tower's dovecote, and another at the road over the tower's wall) [1473, M. Romaní Martínez, M. P. Rodríguez Suárez, editors, Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira, Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 50:]
Nouns inflected like curro
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested in local Latin documents since the 10th century. Perhaps from Latin curro (“cart”) or from Latin curriculum. Cognate with Spanish corro. See: Latin Nouns '
curriculum', Spanish Nouns '
corro'.
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