overo

English

Etymology

From Spanish overo (“piebald”).

Noun

overo (plural overos)

1. A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
   • 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:

     The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.

See also

• sabino
• tobiano

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *falvārium, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbeɾo/ [oˈβ̞e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: o‧ve‧ro

Adjective

overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)

1. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay) piebald, mottled

Derived terms

• frutero overo
• ganso overo
• lagarto overo
• pato overo

 

Further reading

• “overo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28