Etymology

Pateros

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Spanish Pateros
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromPateros
  2. English todayPateros

Borrowed from Spanish Pateros, from pateros, the plural of patero (“duck hunter”), from pato (“duck”) + -ero.

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