león
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
león m (plural leóns)
Old Norse edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin leō (“lion”).
Noun edit
león m (genitive leóns, plural leónir)
Declension edit
Declension of león (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin leōnem (compare Catalan lleó, French lion, Galician león, Italian leone, Portuguese leão, Romanian leu), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of Semitic origin. Doublet of leu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
león m (plural leones, feminine leona, feminine plural leonas)
- lion
- antlion
- Synonym: hormiga león
- (heraldry) lion
- (figurative) a brave person
- (Central America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela) cougar, puma, mountain lion
- Synonyms: león de montaña, pantera, puma
- (soccer) a person connected with Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team from the city of Bilbao
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Further reading edit
- “león”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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