raso

See also: Raso, rasò, and rašo

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Italian razza, likely borrowed from its Germanic and Slavic descendants; compare German Rasse, Polish rasa, Russian раса (rasa).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈraso/
• Hyphenation: ra‧so
• Rhymes: -aso

Noun

raso (accusative singular rason, plural rasoj, accusative plural rasojn)

1. race (large group of people distinguished from others based on common heritage or physical characteristics)

   Synonyms: etno, gento

   Hypernym: homaro

2. (biology, zoology) breed (subspecies or mating group of animals or plants)

   Synonym: subspecio

Derived terms

• rasa (“racial”)
• rase (“racially”)
• rasismo (“racism”)

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin rāsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraso̝/

Adjective

raso m (feminine singular rasa, masculine plural rasos, feminine plural rasas)

1. flat, level

Noun

raso m (plural rasos)

1. plain

Related terms

• Rasa
• Rasela

Derived terms

• arrasar
• Rasa
• rasar
• raseira
• Rasela

References

• “raso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “raso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “raso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “raso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “raso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.zo/, /ˈra.so/

Etymology 1

From Latin rāsus.

Participle

raso (feminine rasa, masculine plural rasi, feminine plural rase)

1. past participle of radere

Adjective

raso (feminine rasa, masculine plural rasi, feminine plural rase)

1. shaven, cropped
2. full to the brim

See also

• pieno

Noun

raso m (plural rasi)

1. Synonym of satin: satin

Related terms

• rasare
• rasoio

Etymology 2

Verb

raso

1. first-person singular present indicative of rasare

Anagrams

• Rosa, Sora, arso, orsa, rosa, sarò

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Latin

Participle

rāsō

1. dative masculine singular of rāsus
2. dative neuter singular of rāsus
3. ablative masculine singular of rāsus
4. ablative neuter singular of rāsus

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀭𑀲𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• रसो (Devanagari script)
• রসো (Bengali script)
• රසො (Sinhalese script)
• ရသော or ရသေႃ (Burmese script)
• รโส or ระโส (Thai script)
• ᩁᩈᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣໂສ or ຣະໂສ (Lao script)
• រសោ (Khmer script)

Noun

raso

1. nominative singular of rasa (“taste”)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese raso, from Latin rāsus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -azu

Adjective

raso m (feminine singular rasa, masculine plural rasos, feminine plural rasas, comparable)

1. shallow
2. flat

Related terms

• raer / rer
• rascar
• raseiro
• rasoira / rasoura

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish raso, from Latin rāsus, perfect passive participle of rādō, whence English raze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraso/, [ˈra.so]

Noun

raso m (plural rasos)

1. (fabrics) satin (cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back)

   Synonym: (obsolete) satén; aceytuni

2. the open; the wild (an exposed location)

   dormir al raso

   sleep out in the open

Adjective

raso (feminine rasa, masculine plural rasos, feminine plural rasas)

1. flat, level (having no variations in height)
2. level (parallel to a flat ground)
3. having no echelon, rank, etc.

   soldado raso ― private

Derived terms

• rasar
• soldado raso

Related terms

• raer
• rascar
• rasura

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• osar
• rosa

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Tocharian B

Noun

raso m

1. span (unit of length)