papero

• IPA^(key): [paˈpero]
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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: pa‧pe‧ro

papero (accusative singular paperon, plural paperoj, accusative plural paperojn)

1. paper

Borrowed from Esperanto papero, English paper, French papier, German Papier, Spanish papel, all ultimately from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).

• IPA^(key): /paˈpero/

papero (plural paperi)

1. paper

• papiro (“papyrus”)

Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare with Spanish parpar (“to quack”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pe.ro/
• Rhymes: -apero
• Hyphenation: pà‧pe‧ro

papero m (plural paperi, feminine papera, diminutive paperétto or paperìno or paperòtto or paperòttolo or paperùccio, augmentative paperóne, pejorative paperàccio)

1. gosling

   Synonyms: paperino, paperotto

2. (colloquial) duckling

   Synonym: anatroccolo

   papera di gomma ― rubber duck

3. gander or drake

• anatroccolo m
• anatra f

• papero in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• papero in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• papero in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• pàpero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• pàpero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From papa +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /paˈpeɾo/ [paˈpe.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: pa‧pe‧ro

papero (feminine papera, masculine plural paperos, feminine plural paperas)

1. (relational) potato

papero m (plural paperos, feminine papera, feminine plural paperas)

1. potato seller or grower

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