borrego
Catalan
Etymology
Variant form of borrec (“young sheep”).
Pronunciation
Noun
borrego m (plural borregos)
Further reading
- “borrego” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “borrego”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “borrego” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /boˈʁe.ɡu/ [boˈhe.ɡu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /boˈʁe.ɡu/ [boˈχe.ɡu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /boˈʁe.ɡo/ [boˈhe.ɡo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /buˈʁe.ɡu/ [buˈʁe.ɣu]
- Hyphenation: bor‧re‧go
Noun
borrego m (plural borregos)
Further reading
- “borrego” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish
Etymology
From borra (“year-old sheep”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈreɡo/ [boˈre.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes: -eɡo
- Syllabification: bo‧rre‧go
Noun
borrego m (plural borregos, feminine borrega, feminine plural borregas)
- sheep around its second year of age
- (figurative) sheep, lemming
- 2016, “Black Mirror”, in Trap Mirror, performed by Los Chikos del Maíz:
- Pero sigamos consumiendo que no pasa nada; seamos borregos, seamos manada / Que por suerte el ser humano, vaya / También tiene obsolescencia programada
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: borrego
Further reading
- “borrego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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