madroño

From Spanish madroño.

madroño (plural madroños or madroño)

1. Alternative form of madrone

• doorman, mandoor

Uncertain, perhaps from Basque mart- (“blackberry; bramble”), as in martotx (“bramble”), martsuts ~ martuza (“blackberry”). Basque also gave Aragonese martuel, Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”). Similar sense development in Galician amorogo, Portuguese morango (“strawberry”), both from amora (“blackberry; bramble”). Replaced now dialectal (a)borto, from Old Spanish alborco, from Latin arbutus. Compare Portuguese medronho.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾoɲo/, [maˈðɾoɲo]

madroño m (plural madroños)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. Fruit of the strawberry tree

• madroñal

• madroño on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es