pavón

See also: pavon

Galician

un pavón (a peacock)

Alternative forms

  • pavom, pavão (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈboŋ/ [paˈβ̞oŋ]
  • 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

See also

References

  • pauõ” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • pauõ” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • pavón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • pavón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈbon/ [paˈβ̞õn]
  • 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)

Derived terms

Further reading

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