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Ultimately from Latin membrum.

• IPA(key): /ˈmembro/
• Rhymes: -embro
• Syllabification: mem‧bro

membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)

1. member
2. (anatomy) limb

• membraro

• membreco

• nembro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).

• IPA(key): /ˈmembɾo/ [ˈmẽm.bɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -embɾo
• Hyphenation: mem‧bro

membro m (plural membros)

1. member
2. extremity
   Synonym: extremidade

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “membro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “membro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “membro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “membro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “membro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• IPA(key): /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/[1]
• Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
• Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro

From Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)

1. member (one who belongs to a group; an element of a set)
2. penis
   Synonym: pene
3. (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb
   Synonym: arto
4. (anatomy) arm
   Synonym: braccio

• The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.

• membrana

• membro del parlamento

• stato membro

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

membro

1. first-person singular present indicative of membrare

2. ^ membro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

membrō

1. dative/ablative singular of membrum

• “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “membro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾu/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.bɾu/

• Hyphenation: mem‧bro

membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)

1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)
   Synonym: participante
2. member; limb
   Hyponyms: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna
3. each part of a whole
   Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço
4. (colloquial) member; penis
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
5. (grammar) each element of a sentence
   Holonyms: frase, oração, periodo, sentença

This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.

• membro fantasma

• membro inferior

• membro superior

• membro viril

• desmembrado

• desmembrar

• membrana

• membrudo

• “membro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• “membro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026