morro

Borrowed from Spanish morro.

morro (plural morros)

1. A round hill or point of land.

• A Morro Castle is a castle on a hill.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ro/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ru/

morro m (plural morros)

1. snout (long nose of an animal)

   Synonym: musell

• morrut

• “morro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “morro” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “morro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “morro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Unknown. From Vulgar Latin *murrum (“snout”); the word extends along the Iberian peninsula, southern France, Italy and south Germany, and is perhaps originally onomatopoeic.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoro̝/

morro m (plural morros)

1. snout

   Synonym: fociño

2. (figuratively, colloquial, in the plural) lips

   Synonym: beizos

• Morrazo

• “morro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “morro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “morro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ʁu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈmo.ho]

From Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.

morro m (plural morros)

1. a landform with elevation intermediate between that of a hill and that of a small mountain
2. (Brazil, especially Rio de Janeiro) a slum built on a hill or on uneven ground

• (hill): cerro (usually smaller than a morro), colina (smaller than a morro), monte (larger than a morro), outeiro
• (slum): bairro de lata (Portugal), favela (Brazil), musseque (Angola)

Inflected form of morrer (“to die”).

morro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of morrer

From Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoro/

morro m (plural morros)

1. hill
2. snout (long nose of an animal)

   Synonyms: hocico, trompa

3. (figuratively) mouth

   Synonym: pico

4. hillock
5. cheek; cheekiness
6. pebble
7. headland

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