cantón

From canto (“extreme, corner”) +‎ -ón.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtoŋ/

cantón m (plural cantóns)

1. corner, extreme of a field
2. promenade
   • 1833, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados, page 4 (in Ramón Mariño Paz (2008), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846.):

     ó chegar á súa casa fun dar, que é indo polo cantón sin torcer, no mesmo andar pregunto polo Señor pro mui logo o vin baixar

     arriving there I found his house, which is just straight down the promenade, on the same floor I asked for the lord, but at the moment I saw him coming down

3. canton, district

• Cantón

• canto
• recanto

• “canton” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cantón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /kaŋˈtuŋ/

cantón m (plural cantoìn)

1. corner (space in the angle between converging lines or walls)

From canto (“corner”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix).

• IPA^(key): /kanˈton/ [kãn̪ˈt̪õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: can‧tón

cantón m (plural cantones)

1. canton, district
2. canton: division of a flag
3. (heraldry) canton: square charge placed on a coat of arms, occupying one third of the chief
4. (Aragon, Basque Country) alley, side street
5. (Mexico) home, crib

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