mouro
Galician
/ˈmowɾo̝/
adj
Definitions
- Moorish
- dark colored; dark purple; black
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese mouro (Moor) inherited from Latin Maurus (a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Moor) derived from Ancient Greek μαυρός (dark, black) derived from Proto-Celtic *marwos (dead).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*marwos
Gloss
dead
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Maurus Latin
- Maure German
- mór Hungarian
- More French
- maure French
- moro Spanish, Castilian
- Μαυρούσιος Ancient Greek
- Μαυρός Ancient Greek
- Μαῦρος Ancient Greek
- μαυρός Ancient Greek
- *mergʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- maurer Norwegian Bokmål
- More Old French
- maure Old French
- mouramia Galician
- mourén Galician
- maur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μαύρος Greek (modern)
- Mōr Old High German
- marb Old Irish
- mouro Old Portuguese
- *marwos Proto-Celtic
- муринъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- maro Breton
- *marw Proto-Brythonic