páramo

See also: paramo

Galician

A Casota do Páramo, a neolithic dolmen in the 2,000ft high páramo of Barbanza, Galicia

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, compare local Latin parămus, from a superlative of Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before”) meaning "the highest" vel sim. Cognate with, for example, Pali parama (“superior, excellent”).

This same element is present in Hispanic autochthonous personal names (Anparamo), theonyms (Paramaecus) and toponyms (Paramica) recorded in Roman inscriptions, or by Greek or Roman authors.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾa̝mo̝/

Noun

páramo m (plural páramos)

1. mesa, plateau, high wasteland or moorland

Related terms

• O Páramo
• paramio
• Páramo
• paraño

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “paramo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “paramo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “páramo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin paramus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾamo/ [ˈpa.ɾa.mo]
• Rhymes: -aɾamo
• Syllabification: pá‧ra‧mo

Noun

páramo m (plural páramos)

1. wasteland, badlands

   Synonyms: malpaís, yermo

2. moor

   Synonyms: brezal, pantano

3. paramo

   Meronym: frailejón

Derived terms

• subpáramo
• venado del páramo

 

Descendants

• → English: paramo

Further reading

• “páramo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28