botón

botón m (plural botones)

1. button
2. bud (of a leaf or flower)

• abotonar

• botão (reintegrationist)
• botom (reintegrationist)

13th century. Probably from Old French bouton.

• IPA^(key): /boˈtoŋ/

botón m (plural botóns)

1. button
   • 1321, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 119:

     Iten xvi botoes que ten Fernan Peres de Meyra por v mor. Iten outros xvi botoes que ten Juana

     Item, 16 buttons that are kept by Fernán Pérez de Meira, by 5 mor. Item, another 16 buttons that are kept by Xoana

2. bud (of a leaf or flower)
3. sucker (of a cephalopod)

• “botoadura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “boton” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “botón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “botón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Possibly from botar, or from Old French bouton. Compare Italian bottone, Portuguese botão.

• IPA^(key): /boˈton/ [boˈt̪õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bo‧tón

botón m (plural botones)

1. button (clothing, mechanical)

   darle al botón ― to press a button

2. key (on a musical instrument)
3. bud (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
4. (slang, Argentina) cop

• → Cebuano: butones
• → Guaraní: votõ
• → Tagalog: boton, botones
• → Taos: bùtún-

• “botón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014