madroño

See also: madrono

English

Etymology

From Spanish madroño.

Noun

madroño (plural madroños or madroño)

1. Alternative form of madrone

Anagrams

• doorman, mandoor

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Basque mart- (“blackberry; bramble”), as in martotx (“bramble”), martsuts ~ martuza (“blackberry”). Basque also gave Aragonese martuel, Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”). Similar sense development in Galician amorogo, Portuguese morango (“strawberry”), both from amora (“blackberry; bramble”). Replaced now dialectal (a)borto, from Old Spanish alborco, from Latin arbutus. Compare Portuguese medronho.

Note also Armenian մաթուզ (matʻuz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾoɲo/ [maˈð̞ɾo.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -oɲo
• Syllabification: ma‧dro‧ño

Noun

madroño m (plural madroños)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. fruit of the strawberry tree
3. lemon drop mangosteen

Derived terms

• madroñal

 

Further reading

• Schuchardt, Hugo (1905) “Zu span. madroño”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie‎^[1] (in German), volume 29, pages 218–223
• “madroño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• madroño on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es