brezo

See also: brezó and брезо

Ido

Noun

brezo (plural brezi)

1. ember

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

brezo (Cyrillic spelling брезо)

1. vocative singular of breza

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾeθo/ [ˈbɾe.θo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾeso/ [ˈbɾe.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eθo (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -eso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: bre‧zo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish breço, from Vulgar Latin *broccium.

Alternative forms

• berozo (Álava, Rioja)

Noun

brezo m (plural brezos)

1. heather

Derived terms

• brezal
• brezo de mar

Descendants

• →? Galician: breixo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

brezo

1. first-person singular present indicative of brezar

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “brezo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 662

Further reading

• “brezo”, 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