liebre
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin leporem, accusative of lepus.
Pronunciation
Noun
liebre f (plural liebres)
- hare
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v.
- […] pero la gente daq́lla tierra o ella es mas fallada, llaman le la piedra dela liebre, por eſta razon. q́ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ¬ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ¬ por endel llaman liebre marina.
- […] but the people of that land, where it is most found, call it the stone of the hare for this reason; that in that place, where the great river Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, there breeds an animal that is similar in its limbs and all of its features to the land hare, and thus they call it a marine hare.
- […] pero la gente daq́lla tierra o ella es mas fallada, llaman le la piedra dela liebre, por eſta razon. q́ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ¬ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ¬ por endel llaman liebre marina.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish liebre, from Latin leporem, accusative singular of lepus.
Pronunciation
Noun
liebre f (plural liebres)
Derived terms
- alebrarse (verb)
- dar gato por liebre
- pie de liebre m
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: liyebre
See also
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