castro

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also, borrowed from Spanish, which entered through Arabic.

Noun

 * 1) a local fortified Iron Age village, of which some 3,000 are known in Galicia
 * 2)  any fortified archaeological site

Etymology
From, denominative in perhaps from a lost instrumental noun, , from , from ; compare 🇨🇬. See also,.

Verb

 * 1) to prune
 * 2) to amputate
 * 3) to punish
 * 4) to purge
 * 5) to castrate or spay
 * 6) * Late 8th century, unknown author, Lex Frisionum:
 * "la"

- Qui fanum effregerit, et ibi aliquid de sacris tulerit, ducitur ad mare et in sabulo quod accessus maris operire solet, finduntur aures eius et castratur, et immolatur diis quorum templa violavit.


 * 1) to dock (a tail)

Descendants
Many reflexes show rhotic metathesis and/or crossing with.


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Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Doublet of, via Arabic.

Noun

 * 1) fort of Roman or prehistoric origin
 * 2) a fortified pre-Roman Iron Age village frequently found in the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula

Etymology 1
. Also survives natively in several Spanish toponyms. , which came through Arabic.

Noun

 * 1) fort, fortified settlement