palomo

From Latin palumbum, accusative of palumbus, alternative form of palumbēs (“wood pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈlomo/

palomo m (plural palomos)

1. dove, pigeon
   • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r. col. 2.

     […] de pues enbio el palomo ⁊ ueno a ora de uieſperas aduxo ramo de olẏua cõ ſus fojas uerdes en su boca

     and then he sent out the dove, and it came in the evening with an olive branch with green leaves in its beak.

• paloma f

• Spanish: palomo

Inherited from Old Spanish palomo, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo- (“dark-colored, gray”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈlomo/
• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo‧mo

palomo m (plural palomos, feminine paloma, feminine plural palomas)

1. male dove, male pigeon, cock pigeon
2. (vulgar, Dominican Republic, slang) coward, punk

• “palomo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10