See also: Sarro and sarró

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.[1]

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Noun

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sarro m (plural sarros)

  1. tartar (red compound deposited during wine making)
    Synonyms: borra, feces, tártaro
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria00. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:
      con sal mudo et con sarro de cuba que chaman tartaro
      with ground salt and with barrel sarro, which they call tartar
  2. tartar, dental calculus
    Synonyms: charrizo, tártaro
  3. soot
    Synonym: feluxe
  4. sandy mineral soil
    Synonyms: sábrego, xabre
  5. acorn barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides)
    Synonyms: arneiro, arneste
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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “sarro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: sar‧ro

Noun

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sarro m (plural sarros)

  1. laugh (something that provokes mirth or scorn)
  2. mockery (the act of mocking)
  3. residue
    1. dregs; sediment (solid particles that accumulate on the bottom of a liquid)
    2. tobacco residue in a pipe
    3. (firearms) residual gunpowder in a firearm
  4. spot; stain
    1. nicotine stain
    2. (pathology) a white coating on the tongue that appears in sufferers of glossitis
    3. (dentistry) tartar (hard yellow deposit on the teeth)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin saburra (ballast).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsaro/ [ˈsa.ro]
  • Rhymes: -aro
  • Syllabification: sa‧rro

Noun

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sarro m (plural sarros)

  1. (dentistry) tartar
  2. mildew
  3. limescale

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