hierro

See also: Hierro and El Hierro

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝero/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ro]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝero/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ro]
• IPA^(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈjero/ [ˈje.ro]

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: hie‧rro
• Homophones: Hierro, (not in Rioplatense) yerro

Etymology 1

Chemical element
Fe
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From Old Spanish fierro, from Latin ferrum. Doublet of fierro (“branding iron”) and ferro (“anchor of a galley”), which were, respectively, inherited from Latin and probably borrowed from Catalan. Other Romance cognates include French fer, Italian ferro, Portuguese ferro, and Romanian fier.

Alternative forms

• fierro

Noun

hierro m (plural hierros)

1. iron (common, inexpensive metal, having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe, or a material predominantly made of this)
2. branding iron (piece of metal bent into a distinctive shape and used to brand livestock)
3. (metonymically) brand (mark or scar made by burning with a branding iron)
4. (by extension) brand (symbolic identity, represented by a name or logo)

   Synonym: marca (more common)

5. iron or steel weapon
6. any of various objects made of iron
7. importance

Derived terms

• amasijo de hierros
• camino de hierro
• Cortina de Hierro
• de hierro
• Edad del Hierro
• herrar
• hierro fundido
• mineral de hierro
• óxido de hierro
• quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere
• quitar hierro
• sacar hierro

 

Related terms

• ferrar
• ferro-
• ferrocarril
• ferroso
• fierro
• herrador
• herradura
• herramienta
• herrar
• herrero
• herrumbre

 

Etymology 2

Verb

hierro

1. first-person singular present indicative of herrar

Further reading

• “hierro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014