# bero
## Basque
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beɾo/ [be.ɾo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾo, -o
* Hyphenation: be‧ro

### Adjective

bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)
* warm, calid
* passionate
* irritable

#### Declension
### Adverb

bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)
* warmly

### Noun

bero inan
* warmth, heat
* (physics) heat
* fever
* (biology) heat, oestrus (a condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate)

#### Antonyms

* hotz

### Further reading

* “bero”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “bero”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From German Beere and English berry.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈbero]
* Rhymes: -ero
* Hyphenation: be‧ro

### Noun

bero (accusative singular beron, plural beroj, accusative plural berojn)
* berry

## Japanese
### Romanization

bero
* Rōmaji transcription of べろ
* Rōmaji transcription of ベロ

## Latin
### Adjective

bērō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of bērus

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* pero

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô. See also Old English bera, Old Norse bjǫrn.

### Noun

bero m
* bear

#### Derived terms

* berin
* berinwurz

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: bër, bere, per
** Alemannic German: Bärr
** Cimbrian: per
** German: Bär
** Rhine Franconian:
*** Hunsrik: Bäer
*** Luxembourgish: Bier
** Vilamovian: baor
** Yiddish: בער (ber)

### References

* "bero" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* bera

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbʲero/

### Noun

bero
* genitive singular/dual of bir (“spit”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From calque of German beruhen (older form also berugen) or Middle Low German *berouwen, equivalent to be- +‎ ro. Cognate with Danish bero and Norwegian Bokmål bero.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -uː

### Verb

bero (present beror, preterite berodde, supine berott, imperative bero)
* to depend [with på or av ‘on’]
    Hans hjärta var nu en gång stämt för hjälpsamhet, och dess frid berodde av medvetandet av att ha hjälpt den hjälpbehövande.His heart was once and for all tuned to helpfulness, and its peace depended on being conscious of having helped someone in need.
* to be caused, to be explained [with på ‘by’]
    Den ofrivilliga pausen berodde på att datorn havereradeThe involuntary pause was caused by the computer's crashing.
** to have an unknown (or unspecified) cause (if the reason is omitted)
    det beror på ― it depends
* to be shelved, to be postponed, to be less important (lacking good reasons)
    Guvernören fann det vara en omöjlig uppgift att bygga en kanal här, så saken fick bero.The governor found it an impossible task to build a canal here, so the issue was shelved.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Derived terms

* bero på
* beroende
* oberoende

### Further reading

* bero in Svensk ordbok.