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Ligurian
Etymology
From Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself ultimately from Turkic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (l¹t¹un¹, “gold”). Compare Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).
Pronunciation
Noun
latón m (invariable)
- brass (metal alloy)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈton/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: la‧tón
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself ultimately of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (l¹t¹un¹, “gold”). Compare Turkish altın, Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).
Noun
latón m (plural latones)
- brass
- Synonym: azófar
Etymology 2
From Vulgar Latin *lotōnem, derived from Latin lotus, a borrowing from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Coromines & Pascual posit that the Spanish word's unvoiced /-t-/ is due to borrowing from Aragonese, presumably meaning the Pyrenean varieties that did not lenite intervocalic Latin /p t k/.
Noun
latón m (plural latones)
- (colloquial) hackberry
Further reading
- “latón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “latón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 605