páramo

 

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, compare local Latin parămus, from a superlative of Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before”) meaning "the highest" vel sim. Cognate with, for example, Pali parama (“superior, excellent”).^[1]

This same element is present in Hispanic autochthonous personal names (Anparamo), theonyms (Paramaecus) and toponyms (Paramica) recorded in Roman inscriptions, or by Greek or Roman authors.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾa̝mo̝/

páramo m (plural páramos)

1. mesa, plateau, high wasteland or moorland

• O Páramo
• paramio
• Páramo
• paraño

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “paramo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “paramo”, 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), “páramo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Latin paramus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾamo/ [ˈpa.ɾa.mo]
• Rhymes: -aɾamo
• Syllabification: pá‧ra‧mo

páramo m (plural páramos)

1. wasteland, badlands

   Synonyms: malpaís, yermo

2. moor

   Synonyms: brezal, pantano

3. paramo

   Meronym: frailejón

• → English: paramo

• “páramo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28