overo

From Spanish overo (“piebald”).

overo (plural overos)

1. A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
   • 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:

     The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.

• sabino
• tobiano

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *falvārium, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.

• IPA^(key): /oˈbeɾo/ [oˈβ̞e.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: o‧ve‧ro

overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)

1. (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Southern Cone) piebald, mottled

• “overo”, 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