zimbro

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from an earlier form *jĩbro < *jĩebro, from Vulgar Latin *ieniperus, from Latin iūniperus. Compare Galician cimbro, Spanish enebro. Doublet of the learned borrowing junípero.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈzĩ.bɾu/

Hyphenation: zim‧bro
Audio (Brazil) (file)

Noun

zimbro m (plural zimbros)

juniper (shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus)
Synonym: junípero

Derived terms

zimbral