besouro

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese abesouro (“beetle”), of unknown origin. Maybe from Latin avis aurea (“golden bird”) or from Spanish abejorro, from abeja (“bee”) + -orro (“augmentative suffix”). Or, possibly imitative of the wing's sounds. Cognate with Galician abesouro (“bumblebee”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -owɾu Hyphenation: be‧sou‧ro === Noun === besouro m (plural besouros) beetle (any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “besouro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “besouro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “besouro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026