abrazo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from Spanish abrazar ("to embrace"), from a + brazo (arm), from Latin brachium.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (US) IPA: /əˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /ɑˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /əˈbɹɑˌzoʊ/, æˈbɹæ.θo/[1][2]

Noun[edit]

abrazo (plural abrazos)

  1. A Latin American embrace. [First attested in the early 20th century.][1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:
  2. ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 5:

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From abrazar.

Noun[edit]

abrazo m (plural abrazos)

  1. hug, embrace

Related terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

abrazo (infinitive abrazar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of abrazar.