claro

claro (plural claros)

1. A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.

• colorado
• colorado claro
• colorado maduro
• double claro
• double maduro
• maduro
• oscuro

• claro-obscuro (different etymology)

• Carol, Clora, Coral, Carlo, Alcor, coral, carol

• clar (Belsetán)
• cllaro (Ribagorçan)

From Latin clārus. Compare Spanish claro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾo/
• Syllabification: cla‧ro
• Rhymes: -aɾo

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)

1. clear

• “claro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾo/ [ˈkla.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: cla‧ro

claro

1. neuter of claru

• caro (colloquial)
• claru (Western)

claro

1. of course

   Synonyms: vaivá, dende llueu, de cuntáu, por de cuntáu, guapamente

2. clearly, obviously, indeed

• “claro”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Inherited from Spanish claro (“clear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾo/, [ˈkla.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: cla‧ro

claro

1. clear

• craro

From Old Galician-Portuguese claro, craro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin clārus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾo/ [ˈkla.ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Hyphenation: cla‧ro

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)

1. clear, light
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:

     huas contas huun calçadonyo et trage hua pedrelina preta que trage figura d'angeo engastoada en prata por sinal que andan en liña branqua et andan y cubellas de prata et moytos esterliins por sinal que andan y pedra cristal rredonda moy crara.

     some bead; a chalcedony; and brings a black stone that brings the figure of an angel set in silver, as a signal, that are in a white cord; and there are some silver cups and many sterlings as a signal, and there is a round crystal stone, very clear

2. clear, cloudless

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “claro”, 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), “claro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “claro”, 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), “claro”, 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), “claro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “claro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫaː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklaː.ro]

From clārus + -ō.

clārō (present infinitive clārāre, perfect active clārāvī, supine clārātum); first conjugation

1. to brighten, lighten or illuminate

   Synonyms: incendō, lūstrō

2. to clarify (make clear, explain)

• French: éclairer
• Italian: chiarare
• → Albanian: qëroj
• →? Spanish: clarar

clārō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of clārus

• “claro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “claro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "claro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “claro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin clārus (“clear; bright”), displacing Old Galician-Portuguese craro.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: cla‧ro

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras)

1. light (pale in colour)
2. bright (luminous; not dark)

   Synonyms: brilhante, brilhoso, luminoso

3. clear (without clouds nor fog)

   Synonyms: aberto, limpo

4. clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)

   Synonyms: inambíguo, inequívoco

5. clear (distinct; sharp; well-marked; easily perceived as a unit)

   Synonyms: agudo, distinto, nítido

6. (of eyes) blue, green or grey
7. evident (obviously true by simple observation)

   Synonyms: certo, evidente, óbvio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

• (antonym(s) of “pale in colour”): escuro
• (antonym(s) of “bright”): escuro, sombrio
• (antonym(s) of “without clouds or fog”): fechado, nublado
• (antonym(s) of “free from ambiguity or doubt”): ambíguo, dúbio, incerto, inclaro
• (antonym(s) of “distinct”): indistinto
• (antonym(s) of “of eyes, blue, green or grey”): escuro
• (antonym(s) of “evident”): duvidoso, incerto

claro m (plural claros)

1. clearing (area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees)

   Synonyms: clareira, vão

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

claro (comparable, comparative mais claro, superlative o mais claro)

1. clearly (without ambiguity)

   Synonym: claramente

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

claro

1. of course (indicates enthusiastic agreement)

   Antonym: claro que não

For quotations using this term, see Citations:claro.

• “claro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “claro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish claro, from Latin clārus. The conservation of Latin /kl-/ is uncommon,^[1] with *llaro being the expected outcome. Compare clavo (“nail”) for a similar situation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾo/ [ˈkla.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: cla‧ro

claro (feminine clara, masculine plural claros, feminine plural claras, superlative clarísimo)

1. clear (easily understood)

   alto y claro ― loud and clear

   • 2015 September 17, Teresa Sánchez Ravina, “Senegal se pone las pilas con la planificación familiar”, in El País‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 March 2018:

     Un ejemplo claro se ve en la tasa de prevalencia anticonceptiva, que en 2014 era del 20% en las zonas urbanas y del 7% en las zonas rurales.

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2. (of color) light, pale (not dark in hue)

   Antonym: oscuro

   moreno claro ― light brown

3. bright (emitting much light)

   Synonyms: brillante, luminoso

   Antonym: oscuro

   luz clara ― bright light

4. clear (transparent)

   Synonym: transparente

   Antonym: opaco

claro

1. certainly, naturally, of course

   Pues claro! ― Well of course!

claro m (plural claros)

1. sunny spell

   Lluvia por la mañana y apertura de claros por la tarde.

   Rain in the morning and the crack of sunny spells in the afternoon.

2. clearing
3. bald patch

   Synonym: calva

claro

1. of course; for sure; sure (indicates enthusiastic agreement)

   Synonym: claro que sí

   Antonym: claro que no

• “claro”, 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

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