piropo
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πυρωπός (purōpós, “fire-like”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piropo m (plural piropi)
- (mineralogy) pyrope (a type of garnet)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -opu
- Hyphenation: pi‧ro‧po
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin pyropus, from Ancient Greek πυρωπός (purōpós, “fire-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Noun edit
piropo m (plural piropos)
- (mineralogy) pyrope (a type of garnet)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
piropo m (plural piropos)
Further reading edit
- “piropo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “piropo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pyropus, from Ancient Greek πυρωπός (purōpós, “fire-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piropo m (plural piropos)
- (mineralogy) pyrope (a type of garnet)
- compliment, flattering comment
- catcall; pick-up line (a comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman)
- 2010, Debbie Rusch, Marcela Dominguez, Lucia Caycedo Garner, Fuentes: Conversacion y gramática, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 297:
- Existe una costumbre en países de habla española llamada el piropo. El piropo suele ser una frase agradable que le dice normalmente un hombre en la calle a una mujer desconocida. Por lo general, no es apropiado que la mujer le haga […]
- There exists a tradition in Spanish-speaking countries called the catcall. The catcall is usually a pleasant remark said by a man to an unknown woman in the street. In general, it is not considered appropriate for a woman to make them […]
- 2011, Jill Pellettieri, Norma Lopez-Burton, Rafael Gomez, Robert Hershberger, Susan Navey-Davis, Rumbos, Enhanced Edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:
- ¿Qué es un piropo? Los aficionados lo llaman “la poesía de la calle”. Para ellos, son sólo comentarios, cumplidos (compliments) dirigidos a una mujer en la calle para reconocer (acknowledge) su belleza sin esperar nada a cambio […]
- What is a catcall? Its fans call it "street poetry". To them, they're only comments and compliments towards a woman on the street which acknowledge her beauty without expecting anything in return […]
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: piropo
Further reading edit
- “piropo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014