cerro

See also: Cerro and cerró

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan cerro, from Latin cirrus. Doublet of cirrus, a learned borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛ.ro]

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

1. fiber cleaned and ready for spinning

Derived terms

• cerrell
• serrell

Related terms

• cerra

References

• “cerro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

• “cerro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cerro, from Latin cirrus (“curl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθero̝/, (western) /ˈsero̝/

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

1. hill, hillock

   Synonyms: outeiro, teso

2. dorsal fin
3. (in the plural) hard scales along the sides of the Atlantic horse mackerel

   Synonym: serra

4. yarn of clean flax; strick

   Synonym: estriga

   • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 343:

     It. ....... arestre de lyno en que son viinte et seys cerros.

     It. ... plait of linen, in which there are twenty-six yarns

   • 1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:

     Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.

     The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the stricks on the distaff, for the year's cloth.

5. flax fiver

Derived terms

• cerralla

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cerro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cerro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cerro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cerro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

cerro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cerrar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cerrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛr.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛrro
• Hyphenation: cèr‧ro

Noun

cerro m (plural cerri)

1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Related terms

• cerreta / cerreto

Anagrams

• corre

Latin

Noun

cerrō

1. dative/ablative singular of cerrus

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cirrus (“curl of hair; mane or forelock of a horse”), comparing a hill to the head of a horse.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʁu/ [ˈse.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʁu/ [ˈse.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʁu/ [ˈse.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʁo/ [ˈse.ho]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʁu/

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

1. little hill

   Synonyms: colina, monte, morro, outeiro

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʁu/ [ˈsɛ.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʁu/ [ˈsɛ.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʁu/ [ˈsɛ.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʁo/ [ˈsɛ.ho]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʁu/

Verb

cerro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cerrar

Further reading

• “cerro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cerro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cirrus (“tuft, crest”). For the semantic relation, cf. the meanings of English crest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθero/ [ˈθe.ro] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsero/ [ˈse.ro] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: ce‧rro

Noun

cerro m (plural cerros)

1. hill (usually larger or more isolated than colina)

   Synonyms: colina, loma

Derived terms

• andar por los cerros de Úbeda
• cerrejón
• cerrero
• cerril
• Cerrú

Further reading

• “cerro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025