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Basque
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)
Declension
Adverb
bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)
Noun
bero inan
- warmth, heat
- (physics) heat
- fever
- (biology) heat, oestrus (a condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate)
Declension
Antonyms
Further reading
- “bero”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “bero”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
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Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bero (accusative singular beron, plural beroj, accusative plural berojn)
Japanese
Romanization
bero
Latin
Adjective
bērō
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô. See also Old English bera, Old Norse bjǫrn.
Noun
bero m
Declension
Derived terms
- berin
- berinwurz
Descendants
References
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “bero”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 6th edition
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Old Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
bero
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Swedish
Etymology
From calque of German beruhen (older form also berugen) or Middle Low German *berouwen, equivalent to be- + ro. Cognate with Danish bero and Norwegian Bokmål bero.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb
bero (present beror, preterite berodde, supine berott, imperative bero)
- to depend [with på or av ‘on’]
- Hans hjärta var nu en gång stämt för hjälpsamhet, och dess frid berodde av medvetandet av att ha hjälpt den hjälpbehövande.
- His heart was once and for all tuned to helpfulness, and its peace depended on being conscious of having helped someone in need.
- to be caused, to be explained [with på ‘by’]
- Den ofrivilliga pausen berodde på att datorn havererade
- The involuntary pause was caused by the computer's crashing.
- to have an unknown (or unspecified) cause (if the reason is omitted)
- det beror på ― it depends
- to be shelved, to be postponed, to be less important (lacking good reasons)
- Guvernören fann det vara en omöjlig uppgift att bygga en kanal här, så saken fick bero.
- The governor found it an impossible task to build a canal here, so the issue was shelved.
Conjugation
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms
Further reading
- bero in Svensk ordbok.
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