Noun: porro
Gender: m
Hyphenation: po‧rro
| Singular m | porro |
| Plural m | porros |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like porro
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin porrum, possibly borrowed through Catalan porro. Compare the (undoubtedly) inherited doublet puerro, showing the expected diphthongization of stressed Latin ŏ. See: Latin Nouns '
porrum', Catalan Nouns '
porro'.
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