galleon

English

Etymology

From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón. Originally an augmentative form of a Romance language cognate of galley, the word spread around the Mediterranean from the 12th century,[1] taking on different meanings depending on place and time.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/, /ˈɡæl.jən/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æliən, (General American) -æljən

Noun

galleon (plural galleons)

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

Related terms

galleass

Translations

large sailing ship

Basque: galeoi
Catalan: galió (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 西班牙大帆船 (xībānyá dà fánchuán), 加利恩帆船 (jiālì'ēn fānchuán), 蓋倫帆船／盖伦帆船 (gàilún fānchuán), 大型帆船 (dàxíng fānchuán)
Czech: galeona (cs) f
Danish: galeon
Dutch: galjoen (nl)
Estonian: galeoon
Finnish: kaljuuna (fi), galeoni
French: galion (fr) m
Galician: galeón m
German: Galeone (de) f
Greek: γαλιόνι n (galióni)
Hebrew: גליאון‎ (he) m
Hungarian: galleon
Icelandic: galíon
Italian: galeone (it)
Japanese: ガレオン船 (gareon sen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gallion m
Nynorsk: gallion m
Polish: galeon (pl) m, galeona f
Portuguese: galeão (pt) m
Romanian: galion (ro)
Russian: галео́н (ru) m (galeón)
Serbo-Croatian: галеон m, галијун m
Roman: galeon m, galijun (sh) m
Slovak: galeóna (sk) f
Spanish: galeón (es) m
Swedish: galeon (sv)
Tagalog: galyon, galeyon
Turkish: kalyon (tr)
Ukrainian: галіон m (halion)
Welsh: galiwn f, galiynau f pl

References

Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 318

Anagrams

allonge

[1] Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 318