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estero

Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /esˈtero/
  • Hyphenation: es‧te‧ro

Noun edit

estero (accusative singular esteron, plural esteroj, accusative plural esterojn)

  1. ester

Ido edit

Noun edit

estero (plural esteri)

  1. ester

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin exterus, from exter (“of another country”).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

estero (feminine estera, masculine plural esteri, feminine plural estere)

  1. foreign (of another country), overseas
    Synonyms: forestiero, straniero, oltremare

Noun edit

estero m (plural esteri)

  1. foreign countries, understood collectively

Related terms edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • estero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /esˈteɾo/ [esˈt̪e.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɾo
  • Syllabification: es‧te‧ro

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin aestuārium.

Noun edit

estero m (plural esteros)

  1. river delta
    Synonym: estuario
  2. shallow lake, pond
  3. lagoon
    Synonym: laguna
  4. (Chile) brook
    Synonyms: arroyo, riachuelo
  5. (Colombia, Venezuela) water reservoir
    Synonyms: charca, represa
  6. (Philippines) arm of an estuary or river
    Synonym: brazo

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

estero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of esterar

Further reading edit

  • “estero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • Venancio M. de Abella (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog‎[1], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 116

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish estero (“river delta”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʔesˈteɾo/, [ʔɛsˈtɛ.ɾo]
  • Hyphenation: es‧te‧ro

Noun edit

estero (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜓ)

  1. estuary; inlet canal of a river

See also edit

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