onagro

Italian

un onagro in cattività — a Persian onager (sense 1) in captivity

raffigurazione di un onagro — depiction of an onager (sense 4)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin onagrus, onager, from Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros), compound of ὄνος (ónos, “ass, donkey”) +‎ ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.na.ɡro/, /oˈna.ɡro/
• Rhymes: -ɔnaɡro, -aɡro
• Hyphenation: ò‧na‧gro, o‧nà‧gro

Noun

onagro m (plural onagri)

2. Persian onager (Equus hemionus onager)

   Hypernym: emiono

3. (loosely) donkey, ass

   Synonym: asino

4. (figurative) ignoramus, rube, wild-ass (ignorant person)

   Synonym: ignorante

6. (military, historical) onager (military engine)

Derived terms

• pietra d'onagro

Related terms

• onagrocrazia

Further reading

• onagro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• “onagro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 11 moto–orac, UTET, 1981, page 953

Anagrams

• gorano, ognora, ongaro, orango, organo, organo-, organò, rogano

Latin

Noun

onagrō

1. dative/ablative singular of onager

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin onagrum (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros). War machine sense due to its kicking action, similar to that of the ass.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈna.ɡɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈna.ɡɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈna.ɡɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈna.ɡɾu/ [ɔˈna.ɣɾu]

• Rhymes: -aɡɾu
• Hyphenation: o‧na‧gro

Noun

onagro m (plural onagros)

1. onager (Ancient Roman war machine)
2. onager (wild ass)

   Synonym: hemíono

Related terms

• (war machine) catapulta, trabuco, manganela
• (wild ass) jumento, burro, asno

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈnaɡɾo/ [oˈna.ɣ̞ɾo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɡɾo
• Syllabification: o‧na‧gro

Noun

onagro m (plural onagros)

1. onager (wild ass)
2. onager (military engine)

Further reading

• “onagro”, 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