león
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
león m (plural leóns)
Spanish[edit]



Etymology[edit]
From Latin leōnem (compare Catalan lleó, French lion, Galician león, Italian leone, Portuguese leão, Romanian leu), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of Semitic origin. Doublet of leu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
león m (plural leones, feminine leona, feminine plural leonas)
- lion
- antlion
- Synonym: hormiga león
- (heraldry) lion
- (figurative) a brave person
- (Central America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela) cougar, puma, mountain lion
- Synonyms: león de montaña, pantera, puma
- (soccer) a person connected with Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team from the city of Bilbao
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Further reading[edit]
- “león”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Galician terms derived from Latin
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- gl:Felids
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- Rhymes:Spanish/on
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- Spanish lemmas
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- es:Heraldic charges
- Central American Spanish
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- es:Football (soccer)
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