colchón

Asturian

Noun

colchón m (plural colchones)

1. mattress

Related terms

• colcha

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1457. From colcha +‎ -ón, from Old French colche. Compare Portuguese colchão and Spanish colchón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kolˈt͡ʃoŋ]

Noun

colchón m (plural colchóns)

1. mattress
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

Related terms

• colcha

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

From colcha +‎ -ón. Cognate with Portuguese colchão.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈt͡ʃon/ [kolʲˈt͡ʃõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: col‧chón

Noun

colchón m (plural colchones)

1. mattress (pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
2. buffer, cushion, padding (something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact)
3. (figurative) nest egg

Derived terms

• colchón de agua
• colchón de aire
• colchón de muelles
• colchón de novia
• colchonero
• colchoneta

 

Related terms

• acolchonar

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: colchon
• → Basque: koltxoi
• → Cebuano: kutson
• → Hiligaynon: koltson
• → Tagalog: kutson

Further reading

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