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Galician
Etymology
First attested in 1813. From carta + -ón; compare Spanish cartón and Portuguese cartão.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈtoŋ/
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Hyphenation: car‧tón
Noun
cartón m (plural cartóns)
- cardboard
1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun galego:Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
que persigue a Inquisicion,
sin mascara, socaliñas
de cregos e frades son.
Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
por ter cara de carton;
pero solamente hay meygas
en donde hay Inquisicion.
As femias da nosa especie
de certa constitucion
fan visaxes, e son tolas,
pero feitizeiras non.- Witches, spells and hexes,
who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
maskless, hoaxes
of priests and friars are.
They call hex an old lady
because her face is made of cardboard;
but there are witches
just where it is Inquisition.
Females of our species,
of certain constitution,
make gestures, and are mad,
but sorceresses they are not.
- card
- carton
Quero un cartón de leite de vaca.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carton”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cartón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cartón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cartón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
From carta + -ón.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈton/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: car‧tón
Noun
cartón m (plural cartones)
- cardboard, paperboard
- cardboard box
- (colloquial, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile) certificate (A document serving as evidence that a person has completed an educational course)
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