sarro

• sarrio

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaro̝/

sarro m (plural sarros)

1. tartar (red compound deposited during wine making)

   Synonyms: borra, feces, tártaro

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria00. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

     con sal mudo et con sarro de cuba que chaman tartaro

     with ground salt and with barrel sarro, which they call tartar

2. tartar, dental calculus

   Synonyms: charrizo, tártaro

3. soot

   Synonym: feluxe

4. sandy mineral soil

   Synonyms: sábrego, xabre

5. acorn barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides)

   Synonyms: arneiro, arneste

• sarrapio

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sarro”, 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), “sarro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sarro”, 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), “sarro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sarrio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: sar‧ro

sarro m (plural sarros)

1. laugh (something that provokes mirth or scorn)
2. mockery (the act of mocking)
3. residue
   1. dregs; sediment (solid particles that accumulate on the bottom of a liquid)
   2. tobacco residue in a pipe
   3. (firearms) residual gunpowder in a firearm
4. spot; stain
   1. nicotine stain
   2. (pathology) a white coating on the tongue that appears in sufferers of glossitis
   3. (dentistry) tartar (hard yellow deposit on the teeth)

• (something that provokes mirth or scorn): piada
• (mockery): zoação
• (residue): resíduo
• (dregs): fezes, borra, sedimento
• (spot): mancha, marca
• (white coating on the tongue): saburra
• (tartar): tártaro

• “sarro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sarro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin saburra (“ballast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaro/ [ˈsa.ro]
• Rhymes: -aro
• Syllabification: sa‧rro

sarro m (plural sarros)

1. (dentistry) tartar
2. mildew
3. limescale

• “sarro”, 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