madroño

See also: madrono

English

Etymology

From Spanish madroño.

Noun

madroño (plural madroños or madroño)

1. Alternative form of madrone

Anagrams

• doorman, mandoor

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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]

Noun

madroño m (plural madroños)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. fruit of the strawberry tree

Derived terms

• madroñal

Further reading

• “madroño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• madroño on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es