faro

Presumably an alteration of pharaoh, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛəɹəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹəʊ
• Homophone: pharaoh

faro (uncountable)

1. (card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.

   Synonyms: farobank, pharaoh

• buck the tiger

• “faro” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

• Afro, Afro-, RAFO, afro, fora

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faro n (uncountable)

1. a type of beer

From fari (“to do”) +‎ -o (nominal suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaro/

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: far‧o

faro (accusative singular faron, plural faroj, accusative plural farojn)

1. deed (an action or act)

From Old Galician-Portuguese faro, from Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾo̝/

faro m (plural faros)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight (of a vehicle)

• Faro

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaro/

faro (plural fari)

1. lighthouse

From Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ro/
• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: fà‧ro

faro m (plural fari)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight, headlamp

• afro, afro-, fora

From Proto-Germanic *farwaz.

faro

1. colored

• faru

From Proto-Germanic *farwaz.

faro

1. colored

Obscure.

• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: fa‧ro

faro m (plural faros)

1. sense of smell, especially that of an animal

   Synonym: olfato

2. (figurative) the ability to recognise opportunities

   Synonyms: intuição, visão

From Latin pharus, from Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾo/ [ˈfa.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: fa‧ro

faro m (plural faros)

1. lighthouse
2. beacon
3. headlight, headlamp (of a vehicle)
4. light (bicycle accessory)

• “faro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024