bero

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• IPA^(key): /beɾo/ [be.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Hyphenation: be‧ro

bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)

1. warm, calid
2. passionate
3. irritable

bero (comparative beroago, superlative beroen, excessive beroegi)

1. warmly

bero inan

1. warmth, heat
2. (physics) heat
3. fever
4. (biology) heat, oestrus (a condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate)

• hotz

• “bero”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “bero”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From German Beere and English berry.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbero]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: be‧ro

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

1. berry

bērō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of bērus

• pero

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

bero m

1. bear

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

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

• bera

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲero/

bero

1. genitive singular/dual of bir (“spit”)

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.

• Rhymes: -uː

bero (present beror, preterite berodde, supine berott, imperative bero)

1. to depend (upon)

   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.

2. to be caused (by), to be explained (by)

   Den ofrivilliga pausen berodde på att datorn havererade

   The involuntary pause was caused by the computer's crashing.

3. to have an unknown (or unspecified) cause (if the reason is omitted)

   det beror på ― it depends

4. 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.

• oberoende

• bero in Svensk ordbok.