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4-letter words (2 found)

AGRO,GORA,

3-letter words (8 found)

AGO,GAR,GOA,GOR,OAR,ORA,ORG,RAG,

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AG,AR,GO,OR,

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Definitions and meaning of agro

agro

English

Alternative forms

  • aggro

Pronunciation

Adjective

agro (comparative more agro, superlative most agro)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, British, slang) angry

Anagrams

  • goar, Argo, Goar, rago, Rago, gora, grao, Gora, Garo

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ācer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/
  • Syllabification: a‧gro
  • Rhymes: -aɡɾo

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

  1. sour

References

  • “agrio”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin ager.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡro/
  • Rhymes: -aɡro
  • Hyphenation: a‧gro

Noun

agro (accusative singular agron, plural agroj, accusative plural agrojn)

  1. field, piece of arable land

Derived terms

  • agrara (agrarian)
  • agraro (agricultural land (of a region))

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agro, from Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɣɾo̝/

Noun

agro m (plural agros)

  1. enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property
  2. countryside
  3. primary sector

Derived terms

Related terms

  • agra

References

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “agro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “agro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (20062013), “agro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (20032018), “agro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (20142024), “agro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French ager, Italian agro and Spanish agro. In length from English agriculture and Russian агрикульту́ра (agrikulʹtúra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡro/
  • Hyphenation: ag‧ro

Noun

agro (plural agri)

  1. field: piece of ground

Derived terms

See also

  • feldo

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡro/
  • Rhymes: -aɡro
  • Hyphenation: à‧gro

Etymology 1

Ultimately derived from Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Classical Latin ācrem (with a change in declension). Likely borrowed from Gallo-Italic, mostly displacing the inherited and now rare acro. Cognate with Sicilian àguru. Doublet of acre, a borrowing from Latin.

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)

  1. sour, acidic
  2. (figurative) harsh, violent, hostile; sad, painful; hard, difficult; unpleasant; cruel, merciless; rigid
  3. (figurative, very rare) irritated
  4. (figurative) lemon-coloured; lemon
  5. (obsolete, very rare) having an unpleasant colour (of gemstones)
  6. (obsolete, very rare) unrefined (of metal)
Derived terms

Noun

agro m (uncountable)

  1. (literal and figurative, rare) sourness
  2. (lemon) juice
  3. (figurative, very rare) sadness, sorrow
  4. (figurative, very rare) dissonance, cacophony
Derived terms
  • all'agro

References

  • “agro1–2”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 269f.
  • agro1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

Noun

agro m (plural agri)

  1. countryside around a town

Further reading

  • “agro3”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 270
  • agro2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • Argo, argo, gora, roga

Ladino

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

  1. sour

Noun

agro m

  1. vinegar

Latin

Noun

agrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of ager

References

  • "agro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Adjective

agro

  1. inflection of agrs:
    1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
    2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

agro

  1. enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ācrus, ācra, ācrum, from Latin ācer, ācris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/

Adjective

agro

  1. sour

Descendants

  • Spanish: agro, agrio

Further reading

  • Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “agrio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 77

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧gro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agrum. Doublet of acre

Noun

agro m (plural agros)

  1. field (area of agriculture)

See also

  • gleba

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin acre.

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

  1. acrid, bitter, sour
    Synonym: amargo
  2. (figurative) arduous, hard
  3. (figurative) steep
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “agro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082025
  • “agro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032025

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -aɡɾo
  • Syllabification: a‧gro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agrum, with first attestation in 1645. However, some dialects may have preserved it as an inherited term. Doublet of acre

Noun

agro m (plural agros)

  1. field (area of agriculture)

See also

  • gleba

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish agro, in use until the 17th century.

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

  1. obsolete form of agrio
Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • “agro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Venetan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós (sharp).

Adjective

agro (feminine singular agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)

  1. sharp, sour
  2. acid

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