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escombro.

rubble

8 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/esˈkombɾo/[esˈkõm.bɾo]
  1. rubble

    masculine · plural-normally
Where this word comes from

Deverbal from escombrar (“to clear out”), from Vulgar Latin *excomborāre (“to clear (a place) of hindrances”). This is said to derive from *comborus (“hindrance, barricade”) (compare Medieval Latin combrus (“barricade of felled trees”)), from Gaulish *comboros, from *komberū (“to bring together”), from Proto-Celtic *kombereti (compare Old Irish conbeir (“brings together, bears”)), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to be carrying”). Cognate with English encumber from Old French combrer (“to hinder”) and with German Kummer (“grief, trouble”) from Middle High German kumber (“distress, encumbrance”), originally "debris, rubble", also from Old French. Vulgar Latin *comborus is alternatively derived from Latin cumulus (“heap, pile”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”). Yet another explanation occasionally found derives the Spanish verb from Latin combūrō (“to burn up”).

noun/esˈkombɾo/[esˈkõm.bɾo]
  1. mackerel

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin scombrī (“mackerel”), from Ancient Greek σκόμβρος (skómbros).

verb/esˈkombɾo/[esˈkõm.bɾo]
  1. first-person singular present indicative of escombrar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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