llorona
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare llorón.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: llo‧ro‧na
Noun
[edit]llorona f (plural lloronas)
- (folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)
- (informal, by extension) banshee
- female equivalent of llorón (“crybaby, whiner”)
Adjective
[edit]llorona f
Further reading
[edit]- “llorón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ona
- Rhymes:Spanish/ona/3 syllables
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- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Folklore
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