membro
Esperanto
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin membrum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmembro]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -embro
- Hyphenation: mem‧bro
Noun
membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)
- member
- (anatomy) limb
Derived terms
- membraro
- membreco
Galician
Alternative forms
- nembro
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese nembro Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛ̃mbɾʊ]
- Hyphenation: mem‧bro
Noun
membro m (plural membros)
- extremity
- member
References
- “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “nenbro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “membro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “membro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/[1]
- Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
- Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).
Noun
membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)
- member (one who belongs to a a group; an element of a set)
- penis
- Synonym: pene
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb
- Synonym: arto
- arm
Usage notes
- The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.
Related terms
- membrana
- membro del parlamento
- stato membro
Further reading
- membro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
membro
- first-person singular present indicative of membrare
References
- membro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Noun
membrō
- dative/ablative singular of membrum
References
- “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- membro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾu/
- Hyphenation: mem‧bro
Noun
membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)
- member (one who officially belongs to a group)
- Synonym: participante
- member; limb
- Hyponym: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna
- each part of a whole
- Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço
- (colloquial) member; penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
- (grammar) each element of a sentence
- Holonym: frase, oração, periodo, sentença
Usage notes
This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.
Derived terms
- membro fantasma
- membro inferior
- membro superior
- membro viril
Related terms
- desmembrado
- desmembrar
- membrana
- membrudo