🇪🇸 Spanish

hombro

masculine

el hombro

shoulder

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hombro
/el ˈombɾo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say hombro in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈombɾo/

How do you pronounce hombro in Spanish?

hombro is pronounced /el ˈombɾo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El hombro izquierdo del jugador está lesionado.

The player's left shoulder is injured.

Mi hombro derecho es más fuerte que el otro.

My right shoulder is stronger than the other one.

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Why is it masculine?

Hombro derives from Latin "umerus" (shoulder), which was a masculine noun (second declension). Spanish maintained this masculine gender through regular sound changes during the language's evolution from Latin. The Latin nominative "umerus" > Spanish "hombro" follows typical Vulgar Latin phonetic development. However, gender assignment in Spanish is largely arbitrary and inherited from Latin rather than following a predictable modern rule based on word form or meaning.

What is the Spanish word for shoulder?

The Spanish word for shoulder is el hombro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchépaule flips!l'feminine
🇮🇹 Italianspalla flips!lafeminine

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