louro

• loiro

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese louro (“dark coloured”), from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Cognate with Portuguese louro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlowɾo̝/

louro m (feminine singular loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

1. dark blonde; blonde; golden
2. black; dark brown; dark purple
   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:

     Sobre un tapiz dua mesa

     mais louro do que é o carbon

     hay procesos, e un tinteiro

     feito de corno de boy.

     Over the cloth of a table,

     blacker than coal,

     there are lawsuits and an inkwell

     made with ox horn

   Synonyms: negro, preto

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

1. laurel tree
   • 1409, Pensado Tomé, José Luis (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria, page 109:

     Para esto val a manteiga mesturada con olio de louro

     For this is good the butter mixed with laurel oil

   Synonym: loureiro

2. blonde person
3. boulder, craig

• Louredo
• loureiro
• Lourido

• rubio

• “louro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “louro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “louro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “louro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “louro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• loiro

• Rhymes: -owɾu
• Hyphenation: lou‧ro

From Old Portuguese louro, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

1. blond (fair haired person)

   Coordinate terms: moreno, ruivo

   Synonyms: (Santa Catarina, Brazil, slang) alemão, (Northeast, Brazil, slang) galego, (Paraná, Brazil, slang) polaco

2. blond (pale golden brown colour)

   Synonym: fulvo

3. laurel (plant)

   Synonyms: lauro, loureiro

4. laurel leaf, used as food

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

louro (feminine loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

1. blonde (having blonde hair)
2. blonde (blonde coloured)

   Synonyms: fúlvido, fulvo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

Possibly Maori nori[1].

louro m (plural louros)

1. parrot

   Synonym: papagaio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.