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membro

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmembro]
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  • Rhymes: -embro
  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun edit

membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)

  1. member
  2. (anatomy) limb

Derived terms edit

Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛ̃mbɾʊ]
  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun edit

membro m (plural membros)

  1. extremity
  2. member

References edit

  • “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “nenbro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “membro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “membro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/[1]
  • Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
  • Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Noun edit

membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)

  1. member (one who belongs to a group; an element of a set)
  2. penis
    Synonym: pene
  3. (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb
    Synonym: arto
  4. (anatomy) arm
    Synonym: braccio
Usage notes edit
  • The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.
Related terms edit

Further reading edit

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

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

membro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of membrare

References edit

  1. ^ membro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin edit

Noun edit

membrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of membrum

References edit

  • “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • membro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun edit

membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)

  1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)
    Synonym: participante
  2. member; limb
    Hyponyms: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna
  3. each part of a whole
    Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço
  4. (colloquial) member; penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
  5. (grammar) each element of a sentence
    Holonyms: frase, oração, periodo, sentença

Usage notes edit

This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

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