galón
See also: galon
Ladin edit
Noun edit
galón ? (plural [please provide])
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
galón m (plural galones)
Coordinate terms edit
- (English unit): onza (1⁄128 galón), gill (1⁄32 galón), pinta (1⁄8 galones), cuarto (1⁄4 galones), barril (31 1⁄2 galones)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).
Noun edit
galón m (plural galones)
- braid
- (military) stripe, chevron
- tres galones en su uniforme
- three stripes on his/her uniform
- 1933, Lino Novás Calvo, Blanco, el negrero:
- En esta refriega, Pedro se ganó un galón
- In this skirmish, Pedro won a stripe
Descendants edit
- → Tagalog: galon
Further reading edit
- “galón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014