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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ladron, from Latin latrō. Cognate with Portuguese ladrão and Spanish ladrón.
Pronunciation
Noun
ladrón m (plural ladróns, feminine ladroa or ladra, feminine plural ladroas or ladras)
- thief, robber
- Coida o ladrón que todos o son (proverb) ― The thief thoughts that everybody also is one
1929, Celestino García Romero, Inferno e gloria:Tamén os ladróns d'aquí n'están a boas co inferno. Se o puderan atafegar! O que n'ha ir alá pensa: se hai que haxa; se arde, deixá-lo arder. Pero o que ve que vai direitiño! Cánto s'alegraría que no'o houbese! Que non fose máis que contos de cregos para ganar un peso.- The thieves here are also at odds with hell. If they could dose it! The one who isn't going to go there thinks: if it exists, let it exist; if it burns, let it burn. But the one that goes straight towards it, how much would he rejoice if it doesn't exists! That it is but priest's tales make to gain a fivepence.
- (horticulture, winemaking) a undesirable unfruitful sprout or shoot which steals nutrients
Adjective
ladrón (feminine ladroa or ladra, masculine plural ladróns, feminine plural ladroas or ladras)
- (rare) thievish, rogue
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ladron”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ladron”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ladrón”, 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), “ladrón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ladrón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Ladino
Etymology
From Spanish ladrón, from Latin latrō.
Noun
ladrón m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לאד׳רון, plural ladrones or ladroním)
- thief
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish ladron, from Latin latrōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈdɾon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: la‧drón
Adjective
ladrón (feminine ladrona, masculine plural ladrones, feminine plural ladronas)
- thievish
- Antonym: honrado
Noun
ladrón m (plural ladrones, feminine ladrona, feminine plural ladronas)
- thief, robber, crook
- Synonyms: bandido, ratero
- (Spain) adapter (device allowing more plugs at an outlet)
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