- burro (n.)
- "donkey," 1800, from Spanish burrico "donkey," from Late Latin burricus "small, shaggy horse," probably from burrus "reddish-brown," from Greek pyrros "flame-colored, yellowish-red," from pyr (genitive pyros) "fire," from PIE root *paəwr- "fire" (see fire (n.)). Or, for its shaggy hair, from Late Latin burra "wool."
