# claro
## English
### Noun

claro (plural claros)
* A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.

#### Coordinate terms

* colorado
* colorado claro
* colorado maduro
* double claro
* double maduro
* maduro
* oscuro

### See also

* claro-obscuro (different etymology)

### Anagrams

* Carol, Clora, Coral, Carlo, Alcor, coral, carol

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* clar (Belsetán)
* cllaro (Ribagorçan)

### Etymology

From Latin clārus. Compare Spanish claro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklaɾo/
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: cla‧ro

### Adjective

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)
* clear

### References

* “claro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

## Asturian
### Adjective

claro
* neuter of claru

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* craro

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese claro, craro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin clārus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklaɾo̝/

### Adjective

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)
* clear, light
** 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:huas contas huun calçadonyo et trage hua pedrelina preta que trage figura d'angeo engastoada en prata por sinal que andan en liña branqua et andan y cubellas de prata et moytos esterliins por sinal que andan y pedra cristal rredonda moy crara.some bead; a chalcedony; and brings a black stone that brings the figure of an angel set in silver, as a signal, that are in a white cord; and there are some silver cups and many sterlings as a signal, and there is a round crystal stone, very clear
* clear, cloudless

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “claro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “clar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “crar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “claro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “claro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “claro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈklaː.roː/, [ˈkɫ̪äːroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkla.ro/, [ˈkläːro]

### Etymology 1

From clārus +‎ -ō.

#### Verb

clārō (present infinitive clārāre, perfect active clārāvī, supine clārātum); first conjugation
* to brighten, lighten or illuminate
    Synonyms: incendō, lūstrō
* to clarify (make clear, explain)

##### Derived terms

* acclārō
* dēclārō
* exclārō

##### Descendants

* Albanian: qëroj
* Spanish: clarar
* French: éclairer

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

clārō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of clārus

### References

* “claro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “claro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "claro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* claro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin clārus (“clear; bright”), displacing Old Galician-Portuguese craro.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.ɾu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.ɾu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.ɾo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkla.ɾu/, /kɨˈla.ɾu/
* Rhymes: -aɾu
* Hyphenation: cla‧ro

### Adjective

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)
* light (pale in colour)
* bright (luminous; not dark)
    Synonyms: brilhante, brilhoso, luminoso
* clear (without clouds nor fog)
    Synonyms: aberto, limpo
* clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)
    Synonyms: inambíguo, inequívoco
* clear (distinct; sharp; well-marked; easily perceived as a unit)
    Synonyms: agudo, distinto, nítido
* (of eyes) blue, green or grey
* evident (obviously true by simple observation)
    Synonyms: certo, evidente, óbvio

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “pale in colour”): escuro
* (antonym(s) of “bright”): escuro, sombrio
* (antonym(s) of “without clouds or fog”): fechado, nublado
* (antonym(s) of “free from ambiguity or doubt”): ambíguo, dúbio, incerto, inclaro
* (antonym(s) of “distinct”): indistinto
* (antonym(s) of “of eyes, blue, green or grey”): escuro
* (antonym(s) of “evident”): duvidoso, incerto

#### Derived terms

* clarear
* claro-escuro

#### Related terms

* aclarar
* claramente
* clarão
* clareação
* clareador
* clareamento
* clareante
* clareia
* clareira
* clareza
* claridade
* clarificar
* clarividência
* claror
* clarume
* clearado
* esclarecer

### Noun

claro m (plural claros)
* clearing (area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees)
    Synonyms: clareira, vão

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

### Adverb

claro (comparable, comparative mais claro, superlative o mais claro)
* clearly (without ambiguity)
    Synonym: claramente

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

### Interjection

claro
* of course (indicates enthusiastic agreement)
    Antonym: claro que não

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin clārus, one of the few inherited words in Spanish that maintain Latin /kl-/, which normally yields /ʎ/ (cf. also clavo).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklaɾo/ [ˈkla.ɾo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: cla‧ro

### Adjective

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras, superlative clarísimo)
* clear
    alto y claro ― loud and clear
* light, bright
    Synonym: brillante

#### Derived terms

* a la clara
* a las claras
* archibebe claro
* claro como el agua
* claro está
* claro y oscuro
* claro y raspado
* claroscuro
* más claro que el agua
* poner en claro
* por lo claro
* tener claro

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: klaro
* → Tagalog: klaro

### Adverb

claro
* certainly, naturally, of course

### Noun

claro m (plural claros)
* sunny spell
    Lluvia por la mañana y apertura de claros por la tarde.Rain in the morning and sunny spells in the afternoon
* clearing
* bald patch

#### Derived terms

* clarito (diminutive)
* claro de luna
* de claro en claro
* miel de claros

### Interjection

claro
* of course; for sure; sure (indicates enthusiastic agreement)
    Synonym: claro que sí
    Antonym: claro que no

#### Related terms

* aclarar
* clara
* claramente
* clarear
* claridad
* clarificación
* clarificar
* claror
* claroscuro
* declarar

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “claro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 95

### Further reading

* “claro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* calor