perro

From Spanish perro.

perro

1. dog

Borrowed from Spanish perro (“dog”).

• Rhymes: -eʁu
• Hyphenation: per‧ro

perro (feminine perra, masculine plural perros, feminine plural perras)

1. stiff (of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible)

   Synonym: emperrado

   A porta está perra, não a consigo abrir.

   The door is stuck, I can't open it.

2. stubborn

   Synonym: teimoso

• emperrar

perro m (plural perros)

1. (rare) dog

   Synonyms: cão, cachorro

2. (figurative) mischievous person

• aperrear (“to provoke a dog”)

From Old Spanish perro (ca. 1200), of uncertain origin. Originally had a pejorative connotation, but soon began to supplant the Latin word can. Perhaps from a call used for dogs; compare Galician apurrar (“set the dogs on”). Another theory derives it from Iberian, compare Asturian perru. If so, it may be related to Spanish zorro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpero/ [ˈpe.ro]

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: pe‧rro

perro m (plural perros, feminine perra, feminine plural perras)

1. dog (animal)

   Synonyms: (formal) can, (colloquial) chucho

2. (Chile) clothes peg, clothespin

   Hyponyms: cachorro, quiltro

3. (derogatory) asshole (despicable person)

• Chavacano: perro
• → Portuguese: perro
• → Yao (South America): pero

perro (feminine perra, masculine plural perros, feminine plural perras)

1. doggy, doggish
2. awful
3. wicked, mean

• pichicho

• “perro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014