overo
English
Etymology
From Spanish overo (“piebald”).
Noun
overo (plural overos)
- A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
- 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:
- The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.
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See also
- sabino
- tobiano
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin *falvarius, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.
Adjective
overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)
- (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay) piebald, mottled
Derived terms
- ganso overo
Further reading
- “overo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014