Noun: otero
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Fraguaron altares en todas las cibdades e fizieron ẏdolas e puſieron las por los oteros e ſolos arbores e fizieron les holocauſt encenſaronlas ffizieron coſas malas por dexar al c̃ador e ſiruieron las ẏdolas e fizieron las coſas q̃ dixo nõ fagades. (The set up altars in every city and made idols and placed them on the hills and under the trees, and they made them burnt offerings and incensed them. They did wicked things by abandoning the Creator, and they served the idols and did the things [of which] He had said, “Do not do [this].”) [c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 44r:]
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Et eſta fallan en la tierra aq̃ dizen azench en un otero que es çerca del albuhera azeda (And they find it in the land they call Azench, on a hillock that is near a bitter pool.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 47r:]
Nouns inflected like otero
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps from Latin altārium (“high altar”), or alternatively a derivative of oto (“high”) (from Latin altus) with the suffix -ero. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese outeiro. See: Latin Nouns '
altārium', Old Portuguese Nouns '
outeiro'.
Verbs referencing "otero"
Spanish Nouns
otero.
Translations