mortero
Spanish
A mid-20th century infantry mortar.
A mortar, mortar and pestle or pestle and mortar.
Three bricks held together with mortar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moɾˈteɾo/ [moɾˈt̪e.ɾo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: mor‧te‧ro
Noun
mortero m (plural morteros)
- (military) mortar (a relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories)
- (food) mortar, mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)
- mortar (a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks)
Derived terms
- mano de mortero (“pestle”)
- morterada
- morterazo
- mortero de cal
Further reading
- “mortero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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