albero

See also: alberò

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish alberobor.

English albero

Borrowed from Spanish albero.

Noun

albero (uncountable)

1. Densely packed crushed rock covering the ground where a bullfight will take place.

Anagrams

• boreal, Arbelo, Boreal, Rabelo

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• arbiello, ervero

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbeɾo/
• Syllabification: al‧be‧ro
• Rhymes: -eɾo

Noun

albero m (plural albers)

1. esophagus, trachea

References

• “esófago”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “albero”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Istriot

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arboris.

Noun

albero m

1. plant
2. tree

References

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 41
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 22

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.be.ro/

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• Rhymes: -albero
• Hyphenation: àl‧be‧ro

Etymology 1

From older alboro m (via dissimilation), from albore m (via masculinization of the ending), from Latin arborem f.

Noun

albero m (plural alberi, diminutive alberèllo or alberétto or alberìno, augmentative alberóne, pejorative alberàccio, derogatory alberùccio)

1. tree (all senses)
2. (nautical) mast
3. shaft, spindle

Related terms

• alberato
• alberatura
• alberello
• albereta, albereto
• alberetto
• alberino
• albero di Natale
• arboreo
• arboreto
• arboricoltura

See also

• corteccia
• fusto
• radice
• ramo

Etymology 2

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *albarus, a derivative of Latin albus (“white”).

Alternative forms

• albaro (regional)

Noun

albero m (plural alberi)

1. poplar tree

   Synonym: pioppo

Etymology 3

Verb

albero

1. first-person singular present indicative of alberare

Anagrams

• albore, arbelo, lobare

Spanish

FWOTD – 2 November 2013

Albero.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin albārius (“pertaining to the whitening of walls”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbeɾo/ [alˈβ̞e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: al‧be‧ro

Adjective

albero (feminine albera, masculine plural alberos, feminine plural alberas)

1. obsolete form of albar (“white”)

Noun

albero m (plural alberos)

1. type of crushed rock applied over gardens and bullring arenas
   • 2010, Antonio Ramos Espejo, Andaluzas, protagonistas a su pesar, Centro de Estudios Andaluces, page 258:

     Manolete, además, hace un esfuerzo supremo cada vez que pisa el albero de la plaza de Córdoba.

     Furthermore, Manolete undertakes a supreme effort each time he steps on the crushed rock of Cordoba’s bullring.

2. (bullfighting) arena
   • 2014, Francisco Soler Guevara, José Antonio Alías García, En el Umbral del Misterio:

     Sólo el torero de verdad cuenta con arte o tiene arte para torear. sabe ponerle sitio en el albero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. dishrag

Further reading

• “albero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025