lloro

See also: Lloró and lloró

Asturian

Verb

lloro

1. first-person singular present indicative of llorar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʎɔ.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʎɔ.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈʎo.ɾo]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

lloro m (plural lloros)

1. parrot
2. (figurative) chatterbox
3. (figurative, derogatory) ugly person

Derived terms

• lloro menut
• passar la nit del lloro

Further reading

• “lloro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “lloro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “lloro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “lloro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Neapolitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin illōrum. The stressed vowel outcome appears to rule out a native inheritance.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈllɔːrə]

Adjective

lloro (invariable)

1. their

Coordinate terms

• mìo
• tùjo
• sùjo
• nuósto
• vuósto

Pronoun

llòro

1. they (feminine nominative)
2. them (after preposition)

Coordinate terms

Neapolitan personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	reflexive	possessive	prepositional
singular	first person		io	me			mìo, mìa, miéje, mèje	me, méne
	second person	familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tója, tuóje, tòje	te, téne
		formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third person	n	ésso	'o (lo)	lle	se	sùjo, sója, suóje, sòje	ésso
		m	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	lle, lli			ìsso
		f	éssa	'a (la)	lle			éssa
plural	first person		nuje	nce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second person		vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third person	n	éssa (llòro)	'a (la)	lle (llòro)	se	llòro (invariable)	éssa (llòro)
		m	ìsse (llòro)	'e, 'i (le, li)	lle, lli (llòro)			ìsse (llòro)
		f	ésse (llòro)	'e (le)	lle (llòro)			ésse (llòro)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1660: “tanto peggio per loro!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝoɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝoɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʎoɾo/ [ˈʎo.ɾo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoɾo/ [ˈʃo.ɾo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒoɾo/ [ˈʒo.ɾo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: llo‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from llorar.

Noun

lloro m (plural lloros)

1. cry; weep

Etymology 2

Verb

lloro

1. first-person singular present indicative of llorar

Further reading

• “lloro”, 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