pavón

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Galician

un pavón (a peacock)

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavon (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin pāvōnem, accusative singular of pāvō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈboŋ/
  • Rhymes: -oŋ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧vón

Noun

pavón m (plural pavóns)

  1. peacock
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:
      o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria
      the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pāvōnem (accusative form). Doublet of pavo, which came via the nominative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈbon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: pa‧vón

Noun

pavón m (plural pavones)

  1. (rare) peacock
  2. moth of the genus Saturnia (so called because of the spots in its wings resemble those of the peacock)

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