# agro
## English
### Alternative forms

* aggro

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Adjective

agro (comparative more agro, superlative most agro)
* (Australia, New Zealand, British, slang) angry
** 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 90:Trolls turns to me agro/sexy. "You're a weirdo who makes others feel weird cause you don't fit in...leave!"

### Anagrams

* goar, Argo, Goar, rago, Rago, gora, grao, Gora, Garo

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin ācer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡɾo/
* Rhymes: -aɡɾo
* Syllabification: a‧gro

### Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
* sour

### References

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

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin ager.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaɡro]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡro
* Hyphenation: a‧gro

### Noun

agro (accusative singular agron, plural agroj, accusative plural agrojn)
* field, piece of arable land

#### Derived terms

* agrara (“agrarian”)
* agraro (“agricultural land (of a region)”)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agro, from Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɣɾo̝/

### Noun

agro m (plural agros)
* enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property
* countryside
* primary sector

#### Derived terms

* Agrelo
* Agriño
* Agro
* Agrochao
* Agrochouso
* Agrocovo
* Agrolongo
* Agromaior
* Agros
* Agrovello

#### Related terms

* agra

### References

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

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ager, Italian agro and Spanish agro. In length from English agriculture and Russian агрикульту́ра (agrikulʹtúra).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡro/
* Hyphenation: ag‧ro

### Noun

agro (plural agri)
* field: piece of ground

#### Derived terms

* agrala (“agrarian, rural”)
* agrano (“agrarian, country person”)
* agristo (“agrarian, country person”)
* agrokultivala (“agricultural”)
* agrokultivisto (“agriculturist”)
* agrokultivo (“agriculture”)
* agromezuro (“land surveying”)

### See also

* feldo

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ɡro/
* Rhymes: -aɡro
* Hyphenation: à‧gro

### Etymology 1

Ultimately derived from Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Classical Latin ācrem (with a change in declension). Likely borrowed from Gallo-Italic, mostly displacing the inherited and now rare acro. Cognate with Sicilian àguru. Doublet of acre, a borrowing from Latin.

#### Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)
* sour, acidic
** 1354, Giovanni Boccaccio, Il corbaccio‎; republished as Nicola Bruscoli, editor, L'Ameto - Lettere - Il corbaccio, Bari: Giuseppe Laterza e figli, 1940, page 227:Le gelatine, la carne e ogni altra cosa acetosa o agra, perché si dice che rasciugano, erano sue nimiche mortali.Gelatin, meat, and all things vinegary or sour—as they are said to be astringent—were her mortal enemies.
** 1605 [1304–1309], “Del mutamento d’una pianta in un’altra [The transformation of a plant in another]” (chapter 8), Libro secondo [Second book], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture]‎, Florence: Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), section 6, page 50:[…] le salvatiche piante hanno più frutti, che le dimeﬆiche, ma hannogli minori, e più agri.[ […] le salvatiche piante hanno più frutti che le dimestiche, ma hannogli minori e più agri.][original: silvestrēs [plantās] habent plūrēs frūctūs quam domesticae, sed habent eōs minōrēs et ācriōrēs.] […] wild plants have more fruits than the domesticated ones, but they are smaller and sourer.
* (figurative) harsh, violent, hostile; sad, painful; hard, difficult; unpleasant; cruel, merciless; rigid
** 13th century, Bono Giamboni, “Del consiglio che dà la Filosofia al fattore dell'opera; e come fue ricevuto per fedele. [The advice Philosophy gives to the work's author, and how it was received as truthful]” (chapter 76), in Libro de' vizî e delle virtudi [Book on vices and virtues]‎; republished in Cesare Segre, editor, Il libro de' Vizî e delle virtudi e il trattato di virtù e di vizî,, Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1968:E non ti sbigottire né abbi paura perché ti paiano ora duri i loro ammonimenti, perché molte cose paiono agre nel cominciamento, che sono molto agevoli a seguitare e compiereAnd do not be dismayed, or afraid, because their admonitions seem severe to you now, since many things, which are very easy to carry on and complete, seem hard in the beginning
** c. 1342, Giovanni Boccaccio, Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine‎, published 1520, page lxxxv-R:[…] il luogo da ricurui aratri:e da qualunque morſo con ſollecitudine Illeſo ſeruarono.ne uiolenta mão in quello ſanza agra punitione ſadoperaua giammai.[ […] il luogo da ricurvi aratri, e da qualunque morso, con sollecitudine illeso servarono; né violenta mano in quello, sanza agra punizione, s'adoperava giammai.] […] they earnestly kept the place untouched by curved ploughs, and by any damage; and no violence was ever perpetrated there, without harsh punishment.
* (figurative, very rare) irritated
* (figurative) lemon-coloured; lemon
* (obsolete, very rare) having an unpleasant colour (of gemstones)
* (obsolete, very rare) unrefined (of metal)

##### Derived terms

* agramente
* agrodolce

#### Noun

agro m (uncountable)
* (literal and figurative, rare) sourness
* (lemon) juice
* (figurative, very rare) sadness, sorrow
* (figurative, very rare) dissonance, cacophony

##### Derived terms

* all'agro

#### References

* “agro$^{1–2}$”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 269f.
* agro$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* ↑ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈakr-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

#### Noun

agro m (plural agri)
* countryside around a town

#### Further reading

* “agro$^3$”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 270
* agro$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Argo, argo, gora, roga

## Ladino
### Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
* sour

### Noun

agro m
* vinegar

## Latin
### Noun

agrō
* dative/ablative singular of ager

### References

* "agro", 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)

## Latvian
### Adjective

agro
* inflection of agrs:
** definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
** definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Noun

agro
* enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property
** 1259, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 44:nos damos a isse Pedro Pedrez un agro que jaz sobrela egreia de Uillanoua en Seloure a chantar de pereyros et de mazeyraswe give this Pedro Pérez a field that is over the church of Vilanova in Sillobre, for planting there pear and apple trees

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Late Latin ācrus, ācra, ācrum, from Latin ācer, ācris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡɾo/

### Adjective

agro
* sour
** 1250, anonymous, Bocados de oro 155, (as shown in the RAE's diachronic corpus, from a 1971 edition by Mechthild Crombach, for Romanisches Seminar der Universität Bonn (Bonn)):Si supiese [...] que se melezinaríe por comer agro, non lo usaríe comer atanto.If such a person knew ... that they could get cured by eating sour food, they wouldn't eat [sweet things] as much.

#### Descendants

* Spanish: agro, agrio

### Further reading

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “agrio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 77

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾu/ [ˈa.ɣɾu]
* Hyphenation: a‧gro

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agrum. Doublet of acre

#### Noun

agro m (plural agros)
* field (area of agriculture)

#### See also

* gleba

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin acre.

#### Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
* acrid, bitter, sour
    Synonym: amargo
    A laranja é agra.The orange is sour.
* (figurative) arduous, hard
* (figurative) steep

##### Derived terms

* agraço
* agrura

### Further reading

* “agro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “agro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡɾo/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾo]
* Rhymes: -aɡɾo
* Syllabification: a‧gro

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agrum, with first attestation in 1645. However, some dialects may have preserved it as an inherited term. Doublet of acre

#### Noun

agro m (plural agros)
* field (area of agriculture)

#### See also

* gleba

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish agro, in use until the 17th century.

#### Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
* Obsolete form of agrio.

##### Derived terms

* agriar
* agrura

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “agro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “agro”, 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

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós (“sharp”).

### Adjective

agro (feminine singular agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)
* sharp, sour
* acid