gerro

Catalan

Etymology

From gerra, a borrowing of Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthern receptacle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒɛ.ro]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛ.ro]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

gerro m (plural gerros)

1. pitcher, vase

Further reading

• “gerro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gerro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “gerro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gerro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كارو (gārru), itself derived from Spanish cigarro. Doublet of sigaar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛroː/
• Hyphenation: ger‧ro

Noun

gerro m (plural gerro's, diminutive gerrotje n)

1. (Netherlands, slang) cigarette

   Wollah, vandaag is m'n hoofd hayek heet beste heeft iemand gerro.

   Yo, today, I am very stressed, it would be the best if someone has a cigarette.

   • 2025 March 13, Majda Ouhajji, “Taalwetenschapper Khalid Mourigh over het veranderende Nederlands: ‘Mattie, fittie en doekoe bijvoorbeeld. Die staan zelfs in de Van Dale’ [Linguist Khalid Mourigh on changing Dutch: ‘Mattie, fittie, and doekoe, for example. These words are even included in the Van Dale dictionary’]”, in NRC Handelsblad‎, retrieved 26 March 2025:

     Ik zat een tijd geleden in de metro in Amsterdam en hoorde ineens ‘ewa sahbi, ara die garo’ (‘hé, vriend, geef me die sigaret’). Bijna helemaal in het Marokkaans-Arabisch. En ik draai me om en ik zie allemaal witte jongens.

     I was on the Amsterdam underground some time ago and suddenly I heard “ewa sahbi, ara die garo” (“Hey, friend, give me that cigarette”). Almost entirely in Moroccan Arabic. And I turn around and all I see are white boys.

Latin

Etymology

From gerrae (“trifles, nonsense”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛr.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛr.ro]

Noun

gerrō m (genitive gerrōnis); third declension

1. A trifler, an idle fellow

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gerrō	gerrōnēs
genitive	gerrōnis	gerrōnum
dative	gerrōnī	gerrōnibus
accusative	gerrōnem	gerrōnēs
ablative	gerrōne	gerrōnibus
vocative	gerrō	gerrōnēs

References

• “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gerro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gerro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gerro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.