mortero
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin mortārium. Cognate with English mortar.
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Noun[edit]
mortero m (plural morteros)
- (military) mortar (a relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories)
- (food) mortar, mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)
- mortar (a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks)
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Further reading[edit]
- “mortero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014