madroño

From Spanish madroño.

madroño (plural madroños or madroño)

1. Alternative form of madrone

• doorman, mandoor

Uncertain, perhaps from Basque mart- (“blackberry; bramble”), as in martotx (“bramble”), martsuts ~ martuza (“blackberry”). Basque also gave Aragonese martuel, Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”). Similar sense development in Galician amorogo, Portuguese morango (“strawberry”), both from amora (“blackberry; bramble”). Replaced now dialectal (a)borto, from Old Spanish alborco, from Latin arbutus. Compare Portuguese medronho.

Note also Armenian մաթուզ (matʿuz).

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾoɲo/ [maˈð̞ɾo.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -oɲo
• Syllabification: ma‧dro‧ño

madroño m (plural madroños)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. fruit of the strawberry tree
3. lemon drop mangosteen

• Schuchardt, Hugo (1905) “Zu span. madroño”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie‎ (in German), volume 29, pages 218–223
• “madroño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• madroño on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es