rostro

• IPA^(key): /ˈros.tro/

rostro (accusative singular rostro, plural rostro, accusative plural rostro)

1. trunk, proboscis (as of an elephant)
2. (general) snout
3. beak (of an insect)
4. (antiquity) beak of a ship

From Old Galician-Portuguese rostro, from Latin rōstrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrostɾo̝/

rostro m (plural rostros)

1. face

   Synonyms: cara, face, faciana

2. plough's shoe

   Synonyms: destal, rastro

• “rostro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “rostro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “rostro” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “rostro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rostro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from English rostrum, French rostre, Italian rostro, Russian ро́стр (róstr), Spanish rostro, all ultimately from Latin rōstrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈros.tro/, /ˈɾɔs.tɾɔ/

rostro (plural rostri)

1. (general) any beaklike extension
2. (national, historical) bill
3. beak (of an insect)
4. trunk, proboscis (as of an elephant)
5. (botany) prolonged rigid process
6. (antiquity) beak of a ship; rostrum in a forum

From Latin rostrum.

rostro m (plural rostri)

1. rostrum
2. (nautical) ram, beak
3. bill, beak (of a bird)
4. nib

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroːs.troː/, [ˈroːs̠t̪roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈros.tro/, [ˈrɔst̪ro]

rōstrō

1. dative/ablative singular of rōstrum

• IPA^(key): /ˈros̺.tɾo/

rostro m

1. Alternative form of rosto
   • 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 127:

     Pero Ares d'Aldãa, tenente lugar ẽna dita billa e torres dela por noso señor o arçebispo de Santiago dom Lopo, e Pero Falcon, juis, Juan Garçia Rouquo, Lourenço Yanes de Pastoris, alcaldes, Alvaro Lopes, Garçia Goterres, Afonso Basques, Fernan Basques, jurados, Pero de Plazer, procurador do dito Conçello, diseron que por rason que algũus mercadores e suas mercadorias e navios se temian e reçeavan de vĩir a esta dita billa e seu porto con as ditas suas mercadorias e navios, entendendo de seer prendados e penorados por las mercadorias que Gonçalvo Correa tomara eno dito porto e levara ẽna barcha chamada per nome "Rostro Fremoso"

     Pedro Ares de Aldán, lieutenant in this town [Pontevedra] and it's towers on behalf of our lord the archbishop of Santiado Don Lopo; Xoán Garcia Rouco, Lourenzo Yanes de Pastoriza, mayors; Álvaro López, Garcia Gotérrez, Afonso Vázquez, Fernán Vázquez, councilors; Pedro de Placer, town agent; they said that since certain merchants and their goods and ships feared and distrusted coming to this town and harbor with their mentioned goods and ships, believing that they would be seized and confiscated because of the trade goods that Gonzalo Correa took at this harbor and carried away in the ship named "Beauty Face";

• “rostro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rostro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Inherited from Old Spanish rostro, inherited from Latin rōstrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrostɾo/ [ˈros.t̪ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -ostɾo
• Syllabification: ros‧tro

rostro m (plural rostros)

1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)

   Synonyms: cara, haz

• “rostro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014