dromedario

Borrowed from Spanish dromedario.

• IPA^(key): /dromedaɾio/ [d̪ro.me.ð̞a.ɾi.o]

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• Rhymes: -io, -o
• Hyphenation: dro‧me‧da‧ri‧o

dromedario anim

1. dromedary

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

• dromedário (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dromedario, from Late Latin dromedarius, based on Ancient Greek δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”). More at dromedary.

• IPA^(key): /dɾomeˈdaɾjo/ [d̪ɾo.meˈð̞a.ɾjʊ]
• Rhymes: -aɾjo
• Hyphenation: dro‧me‧da‧rio

dromedario m (plural dromedarios)

1. dromedary

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dromedario”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “dromedario”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Latin dromedārius, based on Ancient Greek δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”). More at dromedary.

• IPA^(key): /dro.meˈda.rjo/
• Rhymes: -arjo
• Hyphenation: dro‧me‧dà‧rio

dromedario m (plural dromedari)

1. dromedary

• dromedario in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• addimorerò

Learned borrowing from Late Latin dromedārius.

*dromedario m (plural *dromedarios)

1. dromedary
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Cõmo os tͦỹaos poſerõ ſuas aʒes ⁊ forõ fora da villa” (chapter 121), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 44r:

     ⁊ tgiãno dous dromedarios moỹ corredor̃s ⁊ moỹ ligeyros aſſỹ cõmo auj̃a en ſeu coſtũm.

     And he was carried by two very fast and very swift dromedaries, as it was his habit.

• Only attested in the plural.

• Galician: dromedario
• Portuguese: dromedário

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “dromedario”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “dromedario”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “dromedário”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Learned borrowing from Late Latin dromedārius, from dromas or -ārius.

dromedario m (plural dromedarios)

1. dromedary
   • 1270–1274, Alfonso X of Castile, [la eſtoria de Eſpanna] [The story of Spain], page 68r, column 1:

     E poꝛ ẏr mas aẏna fueron en dꝛomedarios q ſon camellos coſſeros.

     And to go quicker they rode dromedaries, which are running camels.

• Spanish: dromedario (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Old Spanish dromedario, from Late Latin dromedārius, based on Ancient Greek δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”). More at dromedary.

• IPA^(key): /dɾomeˈdaɾjo/ [d̪ɾo.meˈð̞a.ɾjo]

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• Rhymes: -aɾjo
• Syllabification: dro‧me‧da‧rio

dromedario m (plural dromedarios)

1. dromedary

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

• → Basque: dromedario

• “dromedario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025