escombro

See also: escombró

Catalan

Verb

escombro

1. first-person singular present indicative of escombrar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkombɾo/ [esˈkõm.bɾo]

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• Rhymes: -ombɾo
• Syllabification: es‧com‧bro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from escombrar (“to clear out”), from Vulgar Latin *excomborāre (“to clear (a place) of hindrances”). This is said to derive from *comborus (“hindrance, barricade”) (compare Medieval Latin combrus (“barricade of felled trees”)), from Gaulish *comboros, from *komberū (“to bring together”), from Proto-Celtic *kombereti (compare Old Irish conbeir (“brings together, bears”)), from *kom- +‎ *bereti (“to bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to be carrying”). Cognate with English encumber from Old French combrer (“to hinder”) and with German Kummer (“grief, trouble”) from Middle High German kumber (“distress, encumbrance”), originally "debris, rubble", also from Old French. Vulgar Latin *comborus is alternatively derived from Latin cumulus (“heap, pile”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”). Yet another explanation occasionally found derives the Spanish verb from Latin combūrō (“to burn up”).

Noun

escombro m (plural escombros)

1. (usually in the plural) rubble

Derived terms

• campo de escombros

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin scombrī (“mackerel”), from Ancient Greek σκόμβρος (skómbros).

Noun

escombro m (plural escombros)

1. (zoology) mackerel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

escombro

1. first-person singular present indicative of escombrar

Further reading

• “escombro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10