fierro

From Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjero/
• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: fie‧rro

fierro m

1. iron

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “fierro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “hierro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• fierru
• ḥierru
• ḥierro

From Old Leonese fierru, from Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjero/, [ˈfje.ro]

fierro m (uncountable)

1. iron

From Old Spanish fierro, from Latin ferrum.

fierro m (Latin spelling)

1. iron

• Kohen, Elli (2000) Ladino-English/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 175
• Bendayán de Bendelac, Alegría (1995) Diciconario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos (Jaquetía tradicional y moderna), Caracas, page 274

From Old Leonese fierru, from Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɛ.ru/

fierro m (plural fierros)

1. iron

“fierro” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈfjerrə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈfiə̆rrə]

fierro n

1. iron (metal)

fierro m

1. iron (for flattening clothes)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 403: “battere il ferro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjero/, /ˈhjero/

fierro f (plural fierros)

1. iron
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 6v:

     Et aun a otra ꝑpriedat que el uidrio la obedece ⁊ tiral aſſi como la aymante tira el fierro.

     And yet another property is that glass obeys it and it pulls it, just like the magnet attracts iron.

• Ladino: fierro
• Spanish: fierro, hierro
  • Papiamentu: heru

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjero/ [ˈfje.ro]

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: fie‧rro

Variant of hierro preserving the initial /f/ in Old Spanish fierro, from Latin ferrum.

fierro m (plural fierros)

1. (Latin America) branding iron

   El rancho marca su ganado con fierro

   The ranch marks its cattle with a brand.

2. (colloquial, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay) firearm
3. (countable, Costa Rica) tool (implement)
4. (Mexico) penny, cent
5. (colloquial, Uruguay) coin (money in the form of coins)

   El banco no acepta pagos en fierro

   The bank doesn't accept payment in coins.

6. (archaic, dialectal, Louisiana, Mexico) iron (metal)

   Synonym: hierro

   La cerca alrededor de su casa es de fierro pintado

   The fence around the house is painted iron.

7. (colloquial, Mexico) money (currency)

• Papiamentu: heru

fierro

1. first-person singular present indicative of ferrar

• “fierro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014