estero
التعريفات والمعاني
== Esperanto ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /esˈtero/
Rhymes: -ero
Syllabification: es‧te‧ro
=== Noun ===
estero (accusative singular esteron, plural esteroj, accusative plural esterojn)
ester
== Ido ==
=== Noun ===
estero (plural esteri)
ester
== Italian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin exterus, from exter (“of another country”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈɛs.te.ro/
Rhymes: -ɛstero
Hyphenation: è‧ste‧ro
=== Adjective ===
estero (feminine estera, masculine plural esteri, feminine plural estere)
foreign (of another country), overseas
Synonyms: forestiero, straniero, oltremare
=== Noun ===
estero m (plural esteri)
foreign countries, understood collectively
==== Related terms ====
esterno
esterofilia
esterofobia
esteromania
esteroricettore
==== See also ====
esteri (for other meanings)
=== Further reading ===
estero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
=== Anagrams ===
Oreste, Ortese, sotere, stereo, stereo-, tesero, teserò
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /esˈteɾo/ [esˈt̪e.ɾo]
Rhymes: -eɾo
Syllabification: es‧te‧ro
=== Etymology 1 ===
Inherited from Latin aestuārium.
==== Noun ====
estero m (plural esteros)
river delta
Synonym: estuario
shallow lake, pond
lagoon
Synonym: laguna
(Chile) brook
Synonyms: arroyo, riachuelo
(Colombia, Venezuela) water reservoir
Synonyms: charca, represa
(Philippines) arm of an estuary or river
Synonym: brazo de río
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Verb ====
estero
first-person singular present indicative of esterar
=== Further reading ===
“estero”, 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
Abella, Venancio María de (1874), Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Philippine Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 116
== Tagalog ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Philippine Spanish estero (“arm of an estuary or river”), from Spanish estero (“river delta”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔesˈteɾo/ [ʔɛsˈt̪ɛː.ɾo]
Rhymes: -eɾo
Syllabification: es‧te‧ro
=== Noun ===
estero (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜓ)
estuary; inlet canal of a river
Synonym: kuwala
==== See also ====
=== Anagrams ===
Rosete