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

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “zevro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “zebro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “zebra”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

• Machado, José Pedro (1995), “Zebra”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language] (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
• Papavero, Nelson; Viaro, Mario Eduardo (2015), O “zebro”: considerações históricas, sua identificação e distribuição geográfica, origem da palavra “zebra” e considerações sobre etimologia [The “zebro”: historical considerations, its identification and geographic distribution, origin of the word “zebra” and considerations on the etymology] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 6) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, →ISSN