agro
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From aggro, by shortening.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective
agro (comparative more agro, superlative most agro)
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) angry
- 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 90:
- Trolls turns to me agro/sexy. "You're a weirdo who makes others feel weird cause you don't fit in...leave!"
Aragonese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/
- Rhymes: -aɡɾo
- Syllabification: a‧gro
References
- “agrio”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaɡro]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -aɡro
- Hyphenation: a‧gro
Noun
agro (accusative singular agron, plural agroj, accusative plural agrojn)
Galician
Etymology
13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɣɾo̝/
Noun
agro m (plural agros)
- enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property
- 1259, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 44:
- nos damos a isse Pedro Pedrez un agro que jaz sobrela egreia de Uillanoua en Seloure a chantar de pereyros et de mazeyras
- we give this Pedro Pérez a field that is over the church of Vilanova in Sillobre, for planting there pear and apple trees
- countryside
- primary sector
Related terms
References
- “agro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “agro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “agro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “agro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “agro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from French ager, Italian agro and Spanish agro. In length from English agriculture and Russian агрикульту́ра (agrikulʹtúra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɡro/
- Hyphenation: ag‧ro
Derived terms
- agrala (“agrarian, rural”)
- agrano (“agrarian, country person”)
- agristo (“agrarian, country person”)
- agrokultivala (“agricultural”)
- agrokultivisto (“agriculturist”)
- agrokultivo (“agriculture”)
- agromezuro (“land surveying”)
See also
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡro/
- Rhymes: -aɡro
- Hyphenation: à‧gro
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Latin ācrem (with a change in declension). Likely borrowed from Gallo-Italic, mostly displacing the inherited and now rare acro.[1] Doublet of acre, a borrowing from Latin.
References
- agro1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008-), “*/ˈakr-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.
Further reading
- agro2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Ladino
Latin
References
- agro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Latvian
Adjective
agro
- inflection of agrais:
- vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
- genitive plural masculine/feminine
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin ācrus, ācra, ācrum, from Latin ācer, ācris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/
Adjective
agro
- sour
- 1250, anonymous, Bocados de oro 155, (as shown in the RAE's diachronic corpus, from a 1971 edition by Mechthild Crombach, for Romanisches Seminar der Universität Bonn (Bonn)):
- Si supiese [...] que se melezinaríe por comer agro, non lo usaríe comer atanto.
- If such a person knew ... that they could get cured by eating sour food, they wouldn't eat [sweet things] as much.
- Si supiese [...] que se melezinaríe por comer agro, non lo usaríe comer atanto.
Further reading
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “agrio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 77
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾo/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾo]
- Rhymes: -aɡɾo
- Syllabification: a‧gro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin agrum, with first attestation in 1645. However, some dialects may have preserved it as an inherited term[1].
See also
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Spanish agro, in use until the 17th century.
Adjective
agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
- Obsolete form of agrio.
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “agro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”).