gerro

From gerra, a borrowing of Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthern receptacle”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒɛ.ro]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈd͡ʒɛ.ro]

gerro m (plural gerros)

1. pitcher, vase

• “gerro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gerro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gerro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gerro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كارو (gārru), itself derived from Spanish cigarro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛroː/
• Hyphenation: ger‧ro

gerro m (plural gerro's, diminutive gerrotje n)

1. (colloquial, slang) cigarette

   Wollah, vandaag is m'n hoofd hayek heet beste heeft iemand gerro.

   Yo, give me that cigarette. Today, I am very stressed, it would be the best if someone has a cigarette.

From gerrae (“trifles, nonsense”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡer.roː/, [ˈɡɛrːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒer.ro/, [ˈd͡ʒɛrːo]

gerrō m (genitive gerrōnis); third declension

1. A trifler, an idle fellow

Third-declension noun.

• “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gerro 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)
• gerro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.