moro
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- a Moor (North African Muslim)
- (colloquial) a Muslim or Arab, particularly Muslims in the southern Philippines
Etymology
Derived from Latin Maurus (a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Moor).
Origin
Latin
Maurus
Gloss
a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Moor
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Morisco English
- Maurus Latin
- Maure German
- mór Hungarian
- More French
- maure French
- morenada Spanish, Castilian
- moreno Spanish, Castilian
- morenísimo Spanish, Castilian
- morisco Spanish, Castilian
- Μαυρούσιος Ancient Greek
- Μαυρός Ancient Greek
- Μαῦρος Ancient Greek
- μαυρός Ancient Greek
- maurer Norwegian Bokmål
- moreno Portuguese
- More Old French
- maure Old French
- moreno Galician
- maur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- moreno Cebuano
- Mōr Old High German
- moreno Tagalog
- mouro Old Portuguese
- муринъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian