liebre
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liebre f (plural liebres)
- hare
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v:
- […] pero la gente daq̃lla tierra o ella es mas fallada, llaman le la piedra dela liebre, por eſta razon. q̃ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ⁊ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ⁊ por endel llaman liebre marina.
- […] but the people of that land, where it is most found, call it the stone of the hare for this reason; that in that place, where the great river Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, there breeds an animal that is similar in its limbs and all of its features to the land hare, and thus they call it a marine hare.
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish liebre, from Latin leporem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liebre f (plural liebres)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Tagalog: liyebre
Further reading edit
- “liebre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014