urbano

From Spanish urbano, from Spanish música urbana.

urbano (uncountable)

1. (music) An umbrella term for various popular Latin American music genres.

   Alternative form: urbano music

   Synonym: música urbana

   • 2025 June 20, “KAROL G's 'Tropicoqueta' Is A Love Letter To Latin America: 5 Takeaways From The New Album”, in GRAMMY.com‎^[1]:

     With so many flavors, the album may be a sign that KAROL G is transitioning from the world of urbano to the broader category of Latin pop.

Borrowed from Latin urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /uɾˈbano/
• Syllabification: ur‧ba‧no
• Rhymes: -ano

urbano (feminine urbana, masculine plural urbanos or urbans, feminine plural urbanas)

1. urban

   Antonym: rural

• “urbano”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “urbano”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From urbo +‎ -ano.

• IPA^(key): /urˈbano/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: ur‧ba‧no
• Hyphenation: urb‧ano

urbano (accusative singular urbanon, plural urbanoj, accusative plural urbanojn)

1. A person who lives in a city; city dweller.
   • 2009, Manuel de Seabra, Malamu Vin, Unu la Alian, page 50:

     Ili iris ĝis la alia ekstremo, kie estis eta domaĉo kie iu prudenta urbano, laŭŝajne, kutime pasigis sian libertempon.

     They went to the other side, where there was a little shack where some sensible city dweller apparently liked to pass his own free time.

Learned borrowing from Latin urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /uɾˈbano/ [uɾˈβ̞a.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: ur‧ba‧no

urbano (feminine urbana, masculine plural urbanos, feminine plural urbanas)

1. urban

   Antonym: rural

• “urbano”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “urbano”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Borrowed from Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city”), derived from urbs (“city”). By surface analysis, urbe (“city”) +‎ -ano (pertaining to).

• IPA^(key): /urˈba.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: ur‧bà‧no

urbano (feminine urbana, masculine plural urbani, feminine plural urbane)

1. urban
2. urbane

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

• Burano, rubano

urbānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of urbānus

urbānō m

1. dative/ablative singular of urbānus

Borrowed from Latin urbānus.

• Rhymes: -anu
• Hyphenation: ur‧ba‧no

urbano (feminine urbana, masculine plural urbanos, feminine plural urbanas)

1. urban

• inurbano

• “urbano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “urbano” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “urbano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /uɾˈbano/ [uɾˈβ̞a.no]

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: ur‧ba‧no

urbano (feminine urbana, masculine plural urbanos, feminine plural urbanas)

1. urban

   Antonym: rural

   • 2015 September 17, Teresa Sánchez Ravina, “Senegal se pone las pilas con la planificación familiar”, in El País‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 March 2018:

     Un ejemplo claro se ve en la tasa de prevalencia anticonceptiva, que en 2014 era del 20% en las zonas urbanas y del 7% en las zonas rurales.

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2. urbane

   Synonym: cortés

• “urbano”, 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