león
Galician
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editleón m (plural leóns)
Further reading
edit- “león”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Old Norse
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin leō (“lion”).
Noun
editleón m (genitive leóns, plural leónir)
Declension
edit Declension of león (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants
editSpanish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editleón 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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editFurther reading
edit- “león”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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