zevro

• *ezevro, ezebro, zebro

From earlier *ezevro, ezebro, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus (“fool, wild ass, donkey”), from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).

Cognate with Old Spanish zebro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zeβɾo/
• Rhymes: -eβɾo
• Hyphenation: ze‧bro

zevro (plural zevros)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) stupid, uncouth

zevro m (plural zevros, feminine zevra, feminine plural zevras)

1. a now-extinct wild equid that lived in the Iberian Peninsula. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   • 15th century, Costumes de Terena e communicados d'Evora; republished as Portugaliae Monumenta Historica, volume II, Leges et Consuetudines, Lisbon: ACL, 1868, page 84:

     Item esta es a brancagem. conuem a ssaber. de zeura vi dinheiros. de vaca vi dinheiros. de cervo im dinheiros.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. European wild ass (Equus hydruntinus)
   2. a feral horse or ass

• Galician: cebro
• Portuguese: zebro, zebra (see there for further descendants)

• asno
• burro

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “zevro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “zebro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• José Pedro Machado (1995) “Zebra”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume V, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 417, columns 1–2
• Carlos Nores et al. (26 June 2015) “The Iberian zebro: what kind of a beast was it?”, in Anthropozoologica, volume 50, number 1, Paris: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, →DOI, pages 21–32