Noun: cerro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cerro |
| Plural m | cerros |
Sample Sentences
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It. ....... arestre de lyno en que son viinte et seys cerros. (It. ... plait of linen, in which there are twenty-six yarns) [1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 343:]
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Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano. (The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the stricks on the distaff, for the year's cloth.) [1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:]
Nouns inflected like cerro
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese cerro, from Latin cirrus (“curl”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cerro', Latin Nouns '
cirrus'.
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