cervo

Inherited from Old Catalan cervo, from Latin cervus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈser.bu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈser.vo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.vo]

cervo m (plural cervos)

1. deer

• cérvol

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

Ultimately from Latin cervus. Compare Italian cervo, Spanish ciervo, Portuguese cervo, French cerf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡servo/

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• Rhymes: -ervo
• Hyphenation: cer‧vo

cervo (accusative singular cervon, plural cervoj, accusative plural cervojn)

1. deer

   Hypernym: cervedo

   Hyponyms: (neologism) cerviĉo, (idiomatic) vircervo, cervido, cervino

From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus.

• Rhymes: -ɛɾbo
• Hyphenation: cer‧vo

cervo m (plural cervos)

1. deer

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

Borrowed from Esperanto cervo, French cerf, Italian cervo, Spanish ciervo, from Latin cervus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡servo/

cervo (plural cervi)

1. deer

cervo (plural cervos)

1. deer

From Latin cervus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂wós, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛr.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛrvo
• Hyphenation: cèr‧vo

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cervo m (plural cervi, feminine cerva, diminutive (uncommon) cervétto or cervìno, augmentative cervóne)

1. deer
2. stag

• → Maltese: ċerv

• corvè, corvé

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛr.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛr.vo]

cervō m

1. dative/ablative singular of cervus

From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus (“deer, stag”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with Galician cervo, Spanish ciervo, Catalan cérvol, Occitan cèrvi, French cerf, Italian cervo and Romanian cerb.

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• Hyphenation: cer‧vo
• Homophone: servo (some speakers)

cervo m (plural cervos)

1. deer

   Synonym: veado