membro

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmembro]
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• Rhymes: -embro
• Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)

1. member
2. (anatomy) limb

Derived terms

• membraro
• membreco

 

Galician

Alternative forms

• nembro

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ̃mbɾʊ]
• Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro m (plural membros)

1. extremity
2. member

References

• “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “nenbro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “membro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “membro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “membro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/
• Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
• Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Noun

membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)

1. member (one who belongs to a group; an element of a set)
2. penis

   Synonym: pene

3. (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb

   Synonym: arto

4. (anatomy) arm

   Synonym: braccio

Usage notes

• The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.

Related terms

• membrana
• membro del parlamento
• stato membro

 

Further reading

• membro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

membro

1. first-person singular present indicative of membrare

Latin

Noun

membrō

1. dative/ablative singular of membrum

References

• “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• membro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾu/

• Hyphenation: mem‧bro

Noun

membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)

1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)

   Synonym: participante

2. member; limb

   Hyponyms: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna

3. each part of a whole

   Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço

4. (colloquial) member; penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

5. (grammar) each element of a sentence

   Holonyms: frase, oração, periodo, sentença

Usage notes

This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.

Derived terms

• membro fantasma
• membro inferior
• membro superior
• membro viril

 

Related terms

• desmembrado
• desmembrar
• membrana
• membrudo