albero

Spanish

albero (uncountable)

1. Densely packed crushed rock covering the ground where a bullfight will take place.

• Boreal, boreal

albero m (plural alberos)

1. esophagus, trachea

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “albero”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.be.ro/
• Hyphenation: àl‧be‧ro

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From Latin arbor, arborem[1][2], from Old Latin arbōs, arbōsis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high, to grow”). Compare Catalan arbre, French arbre, Occitan arbre, Portuguese árvore, Spanish árbol, Romanian arbore. Doublet of arbore.

albero m (plural alberi)

1. tree (all senses)
2. (nautical) mast
3. shaft, spindle

• alberato
• alberatura
• alberello
• albereta, albereto
• alberetto
• alberino
• arboreo
• arboreto
• arboricoltura
• albero di Natale

• corteccia
• fusto
• radice
• ramo

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *albarus, a derivative of Latin albus (“white”).[3]

• albaro (regional)

albero m (plural alberi)

1. poplar tree

   Synonym: pioppo

albero

1. first-person singular present indicative of alberare

• albore

From Latin albārius (“pertaining to the whitening of walls”).

• IPA^(key): /alˈbeɾo/, [alˈβeɾo]
• Hyphenation: al‧be‧ro

albero m (plural alberos)

1. a type of crushed rock applied over gardens and bullring arenas
   • 2010, Antonio Ramos Espejo, Andaluzas, protagonistas a su pesar, Centro de Estudios Andaluces, page 258:

     Manolete, además, hace un esfuerzo supremo cada vez que pisa el albero de la plaza de Córdoba.

     Furthermore, Manolete undertakes a supreme effort each time he steps on the crushed rock of Cordoba’s bullring.

2. (bullfighting) an arena
3. dishrag

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