lloro

See also: Lloró and lloró

Asturian

Verb

lloro

1. first-person singular present indicative of llorar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʎɔ.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʎɔ.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈʎo.ɾo]

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Noun

lloro m (plural lloros)

1. parrot
2. (figurative) chatterbox
3. (figurative, derogatory) ugly person

Derived terms

• lloro menut
• passar la nit del lloro

Further reading

• “lloro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lloro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “lloro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lloro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Neapolitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin illōrum. The stressed vowel outcome appears to rule out a native inheritance.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈllɔːrə]

Adjective

lloro (invariable)

1. their

Coordinate terms

• mìo
• tùjo
• sùjo
• nuósto
• vuósto

Pronoun

llòro

1. they (feminine nominative)
2. them (after preposition)

Coordinate terms

Neapolitan personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	reflexive	possessive	prepositional
singular	first person		io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second person	familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
		formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third person	m	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
		f	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)			éssa
plural	first person		nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second person		vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third person	m	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
		f	llòro	'e (le)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1660: “tanto peggio per loro!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝoɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈʝoɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈʎoɾo/ [ˈʎo.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃoɾo/ [ˈʃo.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒoɾo/ [ˈʒo.ɾo]

• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: llo‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal of llorar.

Noun

lloro m (plural lloros)

1. cry; weep

Etymology 2

Verb

lloro

1. first-person singular present indicative of llorar

Further reading

• “lloro”, 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