histrión

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See also: histrion

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin histrio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /isˈtɾjon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: his‧trión

Noun

histrión m (plural histriones)

  1. actor, playactor
    • 2016 January 2, “He experimentado cosas de otra dimensión: Anthony Hopkins”, in Frontera.info:
      Los dos encontramos el poema ‘The Leaden Echo’ y quisimos que estuviera en el guión y terminó en esa pequeña escena sobre la decadencia y la inevitabilidad de la muerte y de lo mucho que tratamos de mantener la belleza, que casi desaparece y decae”, narra el histrión de 78 años.
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