castro
Catalan
Galician

Alternative forms
- crasto
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese castro, from Latin castrum. Cognate with Portuguese castro, Spanish castro. See also alcázar, borrowed from Spanish, which entered through Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkastɾo̝/
Noun
castro m (plural castros)
Derived terms
- castrexo
- Castrelo
- Castrelos
- Castrillón
- Castro
- Castro Bo
- Castro Caldelas
- Castrobó
- Castromaior
- Castromao
- Castroverde
See also
Castro (poboado) on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
- “castro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “castro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “castro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “castro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “castro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Latin
Etymology
Denominative in -ō perhaps from a lost instrumental noun, Proto-Italic *kastrom (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱos-tróm (“cutting tool, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut up, to slaughter”); compare Sanskrit शस्त्र (śastra, “sword, dagger”). See also castrum, careō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.troː/
Verb
castrō (present infinitive castrāre, perfect active castrāvī, supine castrātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Derived terms
- castrātiō
- castrātor
- castrātōrius
- castrātūra
- castrātus
- procestria
Related terms
- castrum (?)
Descendants
References
- castro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- castro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- castro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- castro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 586
Portuguese

Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese castro, from Latin castrum, from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to cut, cut off, separate”). Cognate with Galician castro, Spanish castro. Doublet of alcácer, from Arabic.
Noun
castro m (plural castros)
See also
- cividade
- citânia
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish castro, from Latin castrum. Doublet of alcázar, which came through Arabic.