overo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish overo (“piebald”).
Noun[edit]
overo (plural overos)
- A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
- 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:
- The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.
See also[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *falvārium, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “overo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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