raro

See also: Raro

'Are'are

Noun

raro

1. sky

   Synonym: rararaa

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Asturian

Adjective

raro

1. neuter of raru

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish raro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈra.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈra.ɾo]

Adjective

raro (feminine rara, masculine plural raros, feminine plural rares)

1. (Castilianism) Synonym of rar (“strange”)

Further reading

• “raro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 14th century. From Latin rārus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈraɾʊ]

Adjective

raro (feminine rara, masculine plural raros, feminine plural raras)

1. rare
2. thin, sparse

   Millo mesto vai no cesto, millo raro vai no carro

   Corn too densely sown produces less than when allowed more space

   (literally, “Packed corn goes in the basket, sparse corn goes in the cart”)

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 105:

     Outra enfirmidade se faz enno ventre do Cauallo que faz rrugyr as tripas, et faz a miude estercar o Cauallo cruu et rraro como agooa

     another sickness happens in the belly of the horse that make the guts rumble, and frequently it makes the horse defecate raw and sparse as water

   • 1455, María del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 336:

     primeiramente que lle roçasen toda enderredor o silvar e mato hua braça que sobra sobre a dita vinna e mays en fondo dela apo quanto que estava muyto rara e em outros lugares que a ontrechatasem ou encasasem e que aestes chantamentos ou encasamentos que lle deytasen tres carros desterco e por quanto non fora arrendada que a cavasen toda en este mes de ianeiro primeiro que ven, sendo primeiramente rosado todo enderredor e o silvar e mato que sae por cima da dita vinna e de mays que daqui endeante desen cada vinna em cada hun anno duas cavas en sua sazon

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   Antonym: mesto

3. scarce
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana, Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 150:

     son tã poucas et tã rraras [...]

     they are so few and so scarce [...]

Derived terms

• raramente
• rarear
• rareza

 

References

• “raro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raro”, 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), “raro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rārus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ro/
• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: rà‧ro

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Adjective

raro (feminine rara, masculine plural rari, feminine plural rare, superlative rarissimo)

1. rare

Related terms

• raramente
• rarità

Adverb

raro

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Noun

raro m (plural rari)

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Further reading

• raro in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• raro in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• raro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• raro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• raro in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• raro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• orra

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.roː/, [ˈräːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ro/, [ˈräːro]

Adjective

rārō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rārus

Adverb

rārō (comparative rārius, superlative rārissimē)

1. rarely, seldom.

References

• “raro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lalo (compare with Hawaiian lalo), from Proto-Oceanic *ralom, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm (compare with Malay dalam), from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ra‧ro

Noun

raro

1. the underworld

   Ka tae tō wairua ki raro. ― Your spirit will go to the underworld.

2. bottom
3. north

Preposition

raro

1. below
2. under

Derived terms

• marangai-mā-raro

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin rārus. Compare ralo, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.ɾu/ [ˈha.ɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.ɾu/ [ˈha.ɾu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.ɾu/ [ˈχa.ɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.ɾo/ [ˈha.ɾo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.ɾu/

• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: ra‧ro

Adjective

raro (feminine rara, masculine plural raros, feminine plural raras, comparable, comparative mais raro, superlative o mais raro or raríssimo)

2. rare (very uncommon)

   Antonym: comum

4. exceptional; extraordinary (much better than average)

   Synonyms: excepcional, extraordinário, notável, inusitado

6. sparse (few and far apart)

   Synonyms: ralo, esparso

   Antonym: denso

Related terms

• ralo
• rarear

Adverb

raro

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Noun

raro m (plural raros)

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Further reading

• “raro”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “raro”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “raro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “raro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “raro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “raro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lalo, from Proto-Oceanic *ralom, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ra‧ro

Noun

raro

1. bottom (lower part)

   Ki ea-mai mai raro mai te rano. ― When coming up from the bottom of the crater.

   Ku toka ana te vai i raro i te puna. ― There is little water left at the bottom of the lake.

Preposition

raro

1. below

   i raro i te pakoga ― below the deep place

2. under

   I te ahiahi-ata he garo te raá ki raro ki te vai kava. ― In the evening the sun disappears under the sea.

Derived terms

• a raro (“down”)
• ki raro (“downwards”)
• mai raro (“upwards”)
• o raro (“lower”)

 

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rārus. Doublet of the inherited ralo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɾo/ [ˈra.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: ra‧ro

Adjective

raro (feminine rara, masculine plural raros, feminine plural raras, superlative rarísimo)

1. rare, strange, odd

   Synonym: extraño

Derived terms

• bicho raro
• cosa rara
• de raro en raro
• enfermedad rara
• más raro que un perro verde
• rara vez

 

Further reading

• “raro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• orar

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lalo, from Proto-Oceanic *ralom, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ra‧ro

Noun

raro

1. west

   Synonym: tooa

Preposition

raro

1. below
2. under

   Teie râ, te vai noa ra te tahi mau tuhaa o te oire i raro a‘e i te mau haapueraa pehu. ― Yet all the while part of the city lay buried under mounds of apparent rubbish.

Tswana

Tswana cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : raro

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Numeral

raro

1. three