león
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Galician
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
león m (plural leóns)
Further reading
- “león”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin leō (“lion”).
Noun
león m (genitive leóns, plural leónir)
Declension
Declension of león (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
From 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
Noun
león 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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Further reading
- “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