llorón

See also: lloron

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin plōrāre

Spanish llorar

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Spanish -ón

Spanish llorón

From llorar + -ón.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɾon/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾõn]

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɾon/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾõn] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ʎoˈɾon/ [ʎoˈɾõn] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ʃoˈɾon/ [ʃoˈɾõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒoˈɾon/ [ʒoˈɾõn] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: llo‧rón

Noun

llorón m (plural llorones, feminine llorona, feminine plural lloronas)

1. crybaby, whiner

   Synonym: llorica

Adjective

llorón (feminine llorona, masculine plural llorones, feminine plural lloronas)

1. sniveling, weeping, whiny

Derived terms

• pasto llorón
• sauce llorón

Further reading

• “llorón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025