Polyglot Dictionary

papiro

/paˈpiɾo/

el noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
los papiros

Meaning

  1. papyrus

    • Escribían en papiro.

      They wrote on papyrus.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

French

papyrus

papyrus is the French word for the same thing — both mean "papyrus."

Portuguese

papiro

papiro is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "papyrus."

Practice

1 What does papiro mean?

2 Fill the gap: Escribían en ___.

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