louro

• loiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese louro (“dark coloured”), from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Cognate with Portuguese louro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlowɾo̝/

louro (feminine loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

1. dark blonde; blonde; golden
2. black; dark brown; dark purple

   Synonyms: negro, preto

   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:

     Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
     mais louro do que é o carbon
     hay procesos, e un tinteiro
     feito de corno de boy.

     Over the cloth of a table,
     blacker than coal,
     there are lawsuits and an inkwell
     made with ox horn

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

1. laurel tree

   Synonym: loureiro

   • 1409, Pensado Tomé, edited by José Luis, Tratado de Albeitaria, page 109:

     Para esto val a manteiga mesturada con olio de louro

     For this is good the butter mixed with laurel oil

2. blonde person
3. boulder, craig

• Louredo
• loureiro
• Lourido

• rubio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “louro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “louro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “louro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “louro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “louro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• loiro

• Rhymes: -owɾu
• Hyphenation: lou‧ro

From Old Galician-Portuguese louro, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

1. blond (fair haired person)

   Synonyms: (Santa Catarina, Brazil, slang) alemão, (Northeast, Brazil, slang) galego, (Paraná, Brazil, slang) polaco

   Coordinate terms: moreno, ruivo

2. blond (pale golden brown colour)

   Synonym: fulvo

3. laurel (plant)

   Synonyms: lauro, loureiro

4. laurel leaf, used as food

In Brazil, most speakers don't use the alternative form loiro to refer to the laurel or its leaf, exclusively using louro for that sense.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

louro (feminine loura, masculine plural louros, feminine plural louras)

1. blonde (having blonde hair)
2. blonde (blonde coloured)

   Synonyms: fúlvido, fulvo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.

Possibly Malay luri.

louro m (plural louros)

1. parrot

   Synonym: papagaio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:louro.